All Forum Posts by: Chris Mury

@Nancy Bachety Thx a lot for the advice, especially the locations your giving me some good starting point to go off of, loving it 😁👍🏾

@Michael Baum Thx for the encouragement 

@Drew C Grossman I am in St Augustine and in the storage business.  I would second the previous comments from @Zach Quick and @Scott Krone.  Happy to help any way I can.

@Dimitri Paspalaris Thanks Dimitri, I’m leaning toward long term because less headache. If you have a trustworthy reputable Rental Management Company you’d recommend I would appreciate that.

@Chris Mury  Thank you. Think I'm going to have to give them a try also. Just a bit leary of learning a new program when the one I'm on is driving me crazy. Another question: how do you send your cleaners the schedule? I thought I had it set up correctly in porter but my cleaners said the way they receive it is too confusing so we went back to screen shots. Till that calendar went away also :-/

@Cliff H.  Thank you for the info you gave @Chris Mury  I have been trying to find that myself for sometime. Will give it a try.  

Also, are you still using yourporter and have you had any issues with it recently? My view of the properties by the month is gone. I contacted them and they said they just added upgrades and that got deleted but they are working to bring it back. I do not know what those upgrades are. 

My nightly rates are not updating even when I raise the minimums. I have to do every night individually. Airbnb and yourporter blamed the other. I've disconnected several times hoping to reset it but no luck.

Wondering if anyone else has the same issues.

Hi @Chris Mury sure. It’s an advanced messaging template setting inside of Porter’s automation rules engine where you can set a message to only go out if the day before, after, or both before and after are available. Historically I combined that with the max duration flag because I was targeting weekend renters, but I suppose you could use it for really any length reservation. See the “availability” paragraph in their user guide below for an overview: 

https://yourporter.com/how-to/...

While it takes some time to think through what’s possible with these PMS’ automation rules, once you think about how you can use them to narrow your target audience it really unlocks a lot of potential for incremental revenue increase. Hope this helps!

We’re considering buying a unit in an existing building that is considered a “condotel”, in that there is on-site management. You’re not required to use the on-site company and we probably wouldn’t. Also, we’d be buying this as a second home without the expectation of making huge money off of it. If we break even I’d be happy.

We have a tentative accepted offer but the seller is concerned that we may not be able to get financing because of the “condotel” thing. Honestly, I hadn’t heard the word condotel until 5 minutes ago, so now I’m sort of concerned that we don’t know enough about this to move forward.

Will we have a difficult time finding financing? And are the down payment requirements different for these? Any other concerns we should be aware of prior to buying one of these units?