Simple Lyfe Stays manages short-term rentals in Hart, Pentwater and the Silver Lake Sand Dunes corridor of Oceana County, Michigan. Oceana is the one market in our portfolio whose peak season has a hard end date printed on a state park calendar ...
Newaygo County has far more shoreline than it has places to sleep on it. Simple Lyfe Stays manages 44 short-term rental doors across western Michigan, and in Newaygo County the split is stark: one of our homes sits on the water with its own laun...
You do not lose confirmed reservations when you change short-term rental managers. You lose them when the accounts holding those reservations are in your manager's name instead of yours. That single fact decides how a switch goes, and it is wort...
Should you raise your nightly rate or fill more nights first? Fix whichever number sits further outside its normal range, not whichever one is easier to change. Across the 22 comparable doors in our July 2026 portfolio baseline, occupancy and av...
Yes. A property manager who collects rent for you and pays it over to you is required to report that rent to you on Form 1099-MISC. The obligation belongs to the manager, it does not depend on you asking, and for calendar year 2026 it starts at ...