EPISODE 119

How He Built the MIT of Vacation Rental Communities — Meet Matt Landau

Meet Matt Landau, the founder of VRMB — a vacation rental marketing blog and community for the world‚Äôs most innovative vacation rental professionals. 

When Matt was a senior at the University of Richmond, he stumbled upon an alumni magazine that wound up changing his life.

On the cover of this magazine was an alum sitting in a hammock while on a beach in Costa Rica. While Matt had no idea what this guy did that enabled him to chillax in such a pristine aesthetic, he made up his mind then and there that he wanted to do whatever it was that this guy did.

And as it turned out, this guy had started the top luxury travel agency in Costa Rica. So Matt decided to shoot his shot and ask this guy to get together for a coffee next time he was in town‚Ķand, to Matt‚Äôs pleasant surprise, he did. 

This opportunity was Matt‚Äôs foray into travel and hospitality and, while he didn‚Äôt know it at the time, this job would enable him to buy his own vacation rental management agency and, eventually, build a prolific online platform and membership community that thousands of professional operators all around the world would one day come to learn from and be inspired by. 

This episode is brought to you by OwnerRez — the smartest property management software for vacation rental hosts. You can get a 30% discount on your first 3 months by mentioning Behind the Stays after booking a call or requesting more information from their team.

Learn more about OwnerRez here

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn

Learn more about the VRMB Community 

Behind the Stays is brought to you by Sponstayneous — a carefully-curated newsletter that sends subscribers 150 of the best last-minute deals and upcoming steals on Airbnb twice a week. You can subscribe for free at www.sponstayneous.com.

Behind the Stays is hosted by Zach Busekrus (@zboozee) — Co-Founder of Sponstayneous. If you know of an Airbnb host you think we should have on the show, please reach out directly to Zach at [email protected] and he'd be happy to talk with them.

Meet Matt Landau, the founder of VRMB — a vacation rental marketing blog and community for the world‚Äôs most innovative vacation rental professionals. 

When Matt was a senior at the University of Richmond, he stumbled upon an alumni magazine that wound up changing his life.

On the cover of this magazine was an alum sitting in a hammock while on a beach in Costa Rica. While Matt had no idea what this guy did that enabled him to chillax in such a pristine aesthetic, he made up his mind then and there that he wanted to do whatever it was that this guy did.

And as it turned out, this guy had started the top luxury travel agency in Costa Rica. So Matt decided to shoot his shot and ask this guy to get together for a coffee next time he was in town‚Ķand, to Matt‚Äôs pleasant surprise, he did. 

This opportunity was Matt‚Äôs foray into travel and hospitality and, while he didn‚Äôt know it at the time, this job would enable him to buy his own vacation rental management agency and, eventually, build a prolific online platform and membership community that thousands of professional operators all around the world would one day come to learn from and be inspired by. 

This episode is brought to you by OwnerRez — the smartest property management software for vacation rental hosts. You can get a 30% discount on your first 3 months by mentioning Behind the Stays after booking a call or requesting more information from their team.

Learn more about OwnerRez here

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn

Learn more about the VRMB Community 

Behind the Stays is brought to you by Sponstayneous — a carefully-curated newsletter that sends subscribers 150 of the best last-minute deals and upcoming steals on Airbnb twice a week. You can subscribe for free at www.sponstayneous.com.

Behind the Stays is hosted by Zach Busekrus (@zboozee) — Co-Founder of Sponstayneous. If you know of an Airbnb host you think we should have on the show, please reach out directly to Zach at [email protected] and he'd be happy to talk with them.

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