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Jan 30, 2023

Tamara N. Jones is the CEO & Founder of Bucket List Stays LLC-bucketliststays.co. She has been learning from Short Term Rental experiences worldwide since 2015. In February 2018, she started managing her first vacation property in Tybee Island, GA while growing local partnerships. Today she has forged relationships in 13 different cities with the locals who today provide her cleaning, maintenance, transportation, and entertainment services for her guest. With diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, and newly obtained local knowledge. Her company and the team of Bucket List Stays have continued to significantly increase revenue and vacation properties under management domestically and internationally. 

 

Bucket List Stays - bucketliststays.co is an owner-operated business that creates profitable investment opportunities for investors looking for passive income streams through sustainable real estate projects and partnerships with land and homeowners, thus reducing tenant/landlord inefficiencies, high turnover rates, and excessive damage.

 

In addition, also provides full-service management to property owners worldwide including Property Management, Online Services, Vacation Rentals marketing, and Community Growth. Bucket List Stays offers a variety of short-term and long-term leasing options in the United States and internationally. Santa Fe, Tybee Island, New Orleans, Fleming Island, and the Dominican Republic are among the most popular destinations.

 

In this episode, Tamara shares her experiences in the industry, including her journey from military life to creating a successful short-term rental business. Her business model combines turnkey methods, unique stays, and property management to make her business profitable. She reveals tips on understanding demand trends and different strategies to help maximize profits. She shares insights into the tertiary market, government contracts, investments in tiny homes and containers, skids, houseboats, and more. To learn more about Tamara and her work, listeners can visit Bucket List Stays!

 

[00:01 - 02:37] Discovering The Benefits Of Owner-Occupied Short-Term Rentals

 

  • Tamara shares her experiences in the short-term rental business
  • She offers investment opportunities with short-term rental properties 

 

 

[02:38 - 13:10] Turning Container Homes Into Floating Hotels

  • She uses multiple models to make her business profitable, including the turnkey method, unique stays, and property management model
  • How she got started when she put a room in her home up for a couch surfing/Airbnb opportunity and saw the profits exceed her expectations
  • A short-term rental is a form of house hacking with a nightly rate instead of a monthly rate
  • The easiest way to step into a short-term rental is owner-occupied units
  • Tiny homes can be turned into vacation rental businesses

 

[13:11 - 19:47] Closing Segment

  • Tamara shares with listeners that the demand for short-term rentals is highest in tertiary markets outside major metro areas

 

 

 

Tweetable Quotes:

“Short-term rentals are very seasonally and environmentally and politically impacted. They're a very fickle type of asset, so it's good to make sure you're able to move those if you need to.”  – Tamara Jones

 

“A tiny house really is a depreciating asset if you really look at it. But what makes it a great investment is you turn it into a vacation rental and turn that vacation rental into a branded business. That's where you come up with the big bucks.” – Tamara Jones




You can connect with Tamara Jones through her:

Website: Bucket List Stays

LinkedIn: Tamara Jones

Instagram: Bucket List Stays

 

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