Unlocked by Matt Landau
Unlocked is a podcast series that invites you to be a fly-on-the-wall as VRMB founder Matt Landau interviews some of the world’s most innovative vacation rental professionals. The goal of this podcast series is to share best practices and to remind vacation rental professionals that we have everything we need inside of us to succeed.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 183
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2024
EP23: Diamond In The Rough with Danna Kittell of Starfish Luxury Rentals
Danna Kittell is the founder of Starfish Luxury Rentals on the coast of Oregon. Her enthusiasm and positivity for the industry is eclipsed only by her hard work.
After doing some rehab to her family…
EP22: Handmade Pricing with Zaira Guzman of Bluewater Vacation Homes
Zaira Guzman is the Director of Sales and Revenue Management at Bluewater Vacation Homes in San Diego. Since San Diego is such a competitive vacation environment, Bluewater's recent occupancy growth …
EP21: The Mood Board with Jean-Philippe Ramé of 2BeApart
EP20: The Folio with Jeff Jensen of Utopian Luxury Vacation Homes
EP19: Saving Grace with Mike Harrington of Carolina Beach Realty
EP18: The Alliance with Eric Bay of ANP
EP17: Listing Site Independence with Jeremiah Gall
EP16: Follow The Wall with Durk Johnson of VRHP
Durk Johnson is a housekeeping guru. He’s the director of the Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals (VRHP) but he’s also the consummate systems thinker: Durk is always looking for a way to syste…
EP15: Diversified with Jeanne Dailey of Newman-Dailey Resort Properties
It's not often I meet a mastermind like Jeanne Dailey, she's the Founder and CEO of Newman-Dailey Resort Properties in Destin, Florida.
Like many vacation rental professionals, Jeanne is keen on the …
EP14: Top-Grading with John Dean of Only Provence
EP13: Collaborative Wisdom with Brad Stewart of Stewart Mountain Lodging
Brad Stewart of Stewart Mountain Lodging in Sundance, Utah is one of my best buddies in the industry. I think it’s fair to say that I admire his work as much as he appreciates mine.
More specifically…
EP12: The Acquisition with Alex Barba of BCN Apartments
Alex Barba was the General Manager at BCN Apartments when we recorded this conversation -- it's a boutique vacation rental fleet in Barcelona, Spain. And while he's not there anymore, the way he help…
EP11: The Auctioneer with Mailie Green of Global Villas Ltd
Mailie Green manages three vacation rental villas in Bali from her home in South Africa. And like any manager, she is constantly on the lookout for ways to boost occupancy in the low season: she is a…
EP10: My Flotilla with Lawrie Lawrence of Stay Lake Norman
Lawrie Lawrence is a real estate guy. He loves real estate. he’s really good at real estate. And only recently has he become infatuated with a new kind of real estate, and that’s vacation rentals.
Bu…
EP09: Pretext Support with Bernardo Retana of Otium Residences
Bernardo Retana of Otium Residences in Marbella, Spain has a great pedigree of hospitality and finance. But what I like most about his topic here is its unconventionality — it’s innovative in that no…
EP08: The Limited Edition Episode
The vacation rental industry has exploded in the last few years with big players. Big players like AirBnB, HomeAway & Booking.com have been rapidly consolidating the industry, creating an industry wi…
EP07: Managing an Overseas Vacation Rental & Overcoming Tragedies with Ralph Moorhouse
Ralph and his wife Karen, like many people, fell in love with Paris. However, instead of doing what most people would of done, they began buying property in Paris & Nice. Since then, they have been s…
EP06: Slowly Growing & Automating a Boutique Vacation Rental Management Business with Jan Stevens
Jan Stevens’s journey in the vacation rental industry began when she inherited an old family fishing shack that they bought for $1,200 in the 50’s. Realizing she could leverage her talents as a profe…
EP05: Creating a Successful & Fulfilling Niche Vacation Rental Business with Rick Oster
Rick Oster’s career has had many twists and turns. He spent most of his professional life climbing the corporate ladder as an overworked executive in the television & cable industry, and then took a …
EP04: Infusing Personality (and Totem Poles) into Your Vacation Rental with Teena Kulakowski
Teena Kulakowski is a former chemist who now runs the successful Four Seasons Lodge in New Hampshire. Her experiments have taken her from newspaper advertising to chainsaw artists to building her o…