Vacation Rental Success
Hosted by Heather · Heather Bayer aka @CottageGuru
4.7from 215 ratings
- 915
- Episodes
- 139
- Transcribed
- 215
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 17K
- YouTube views
About Vacation Rental Success
Heather Bayer, author of Renting Your Recreational Property for Profit, former CEO of a highly successful cottage rental agency, and a popular blogger, hosts the Vacation Rental Success podcast. With many years experience of owning and managing multiple vacation rental properties, Heather brings her knowledge and views on every aspect of the business, together with interviews with vacation homeowners and industry experts. Heather has appeared as a guest on CTV Canada, CBC Radio, Rogers TV, and Chex TV and is frequently interviewed on real estate and travel topics by magazines and daily newspapers.
- Publisher
- Heather Bayer aka @CottageGuru
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Feb 2013
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
139 of 915 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
VRS684 - Why Your Five Star Reviews Are Not Telling Guests What They Think
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
VRS683 - Why AI Cannot Fix a Broken Business Model
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
VRS682 - What It Takes to Rebuild a Company on AI
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VRS684 - Why Your Five Star Reviews Are Not Telling Guests What They Think
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] How do you get this? We have that expression about herding cats, but we have all these independent hosts out there. And I understand how it's difficult to standardize in that area. But if you're going to start with property managers, how does this happen? So I think it's important to know that every mature hospitality industry, whether we're talking about hotels, restaurants, airlines, rental cars, have a language of trust. They have what they call in the hotel industry a chain scale. And so you have this framework in place. that it's a framework of quality and care. So in the hotel industry, you've got everything ranging from economy level hotels, like a Motel 6, to upscale and then to luxury. […]
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- Ashley Ching
- Cristiana Carpini
- Brooke Pfautz
- Andrew Kitchell
- Eloisa Jones
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 16,562
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 212 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.3 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Vacation Rental Success?
Heather host the show. Published by Heather Bayer aka @CottageGuru.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Vacation Rental Success take guests?
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