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Revenue-minded STR operations, explained plainly.
Get Paid For Your Pad is a working-room podcast for Airbnb hosts and short-term rental operators managing real revenue decisions. Its episodes move from launch pricing and KPI dashboards to owner acquisition, fraud screening, and the operational strain of scaling.
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Get Paid For Your Pad is a practical podcast about running short-term rentals as a serious operating business. It favors dashboards over slogans. Recent episodes spend a lot of time on revenue management, especially the decisions that get harder as a portfolio grows from a handful of listings to dozens or more. Pricing is treated as a living system, not a single rate choice. The show looks at launch strategy, booking windows, market comparisons, month-over-month changes, last-year performance, and the owner conversations that happen when one property is full and another is still open. It also keeps returning to the tension between portfolio logic and individual homeowner expectations. That makes the show useful for managers who need to explain why the highest short-term number is not always the smartest long-term move. Some episodes are direct teaching sessions, with step-by-step guidance on KPIs or new-listing launches. Others are interview-driven, bringing in operators and revenue managers to talk through growth, team structure, fraud, quality control, and guest experience. The tone is measured and concrete. A discussion of hotels becomes a sharp reminder that STR revenue management can be harder because each home behaves like its own small inventory problem. A conversation about guest screening moves from an alarming property incident into the limits of intuition when AI-assisted fraud becomes more convincing. A review-focused episode grounds hospitality in communication, quality, amenities, and the feeling guests carry home. The show does not romanticize scaling. It asks what breaks when onboarding, accounting, PMS setup, laundry, team capacity, and brand standards cannot keep up. Owner acquisition also gets treated as an operational problem, where trust, service, message, and team execution matter as much as price. The recurring value is specificity. It names the metric, compares the scenario, and then brings the operator back to the decision in front of them. It is not especially polished or theatrical. That works in its favor. The show sounds closest to a working session for people who already know the industry has moving parts and want a better way to manage them.
Made for: For Airbnb hosts, short-term rental property managers, and vacation-rental operators who are managing growth, pricing, owners, teams, and guest expectations. It fits listeners who want practical operating judgment more than broad business motivation.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating STR growth through the lens of revenue management and portfolio operations. It connects pricing, KPIs, owner trust, guest experience, and fraud screening into the same practical operating picture.
Get Paid For Your Pad is the go-to podcast for Airbnb hosts, short-term rental operators, and vacation rental entrepreneurs who want to scale smarter, earn more, and stay ahead of industry shifts. Hosted by Jasper Ribbers, Eric Moeller, and Kaye Putnam from Freewyld Foundry, this podcast delivers actionable tips on Airbnb pricing strategies, revenue management, direct bookings, listing optimization, and guest experience. You'll hear from real hosts, property managers, and industry pros who share behind-the-scenes insights, lessons learned, and the systems they use to grow profitable STR businesses. Whether you're managing one property or one hundred, you'll walk away with practical strategie…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes short-term-rental revenue management legible through concrete comparisons, operator decisions and the complications that surface as portfolios grow.
Get Paid For Your Pad treats short-term rentals as an operating business whose numbers need interpretation, not merely collection. Jasper Ribbers and Eric Moeller move between solo instruction, guest conversations and a recorded masterclass, with revenue management as the…
A neighbor's booking is not a pricing strategy, and this is where your spreadsheet learns the difference.
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A practical look at portfolio-level pricing, owner communication, and the tradeoffs that show up as a short-term rental portfolio grows.
Get Paid for Your Pad leans into the moment when a short-term rental portfolio outgrows single-property thinking and revenue management has to start reading the whole book at once.
Tracking results matters, but context matters more.
The episode makes a clear case that tracking results belongs at the center of revenue management, while also noting that many operators know they should measure performance without knowing what to track, how to track it, or how to use the numbers well.
A grounded warning about AI turning hospitality's human instincts into openings for fraud.
AI-assisted fraud lands here as a property-operations issue, not a distant tech anxiety. A Christmas Eve call from Toronto Deputy Police about a confirmed sighting of a known gang member at one of the properties gives the episode its sharp opening, before the discussion moves…
A clear STR forecasting walkthrough that links portfolio revenue projections with practical data habits and cloud-assisted tools.
Short-term-rental revenue forecasting is framed as a practical operator problem: start with portfolio revenue, then work through the data points that can support a 12-month outlook.
Eric Muller reframes goal setting as a question of energy, focus, and sequencing.
Goal setting is often framed as motivation, but Eric Muller's first solo discussion on Get Paid for Your Pad treats it as an allocation problem: where should a business put limited energy so one priority helps create momentum for the next?
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
This episode features an interview with Troy Daly, CEO of Elevated Stays, discussing how he scaled his short-term rental business to over 95 units while maintaining quality and managing challenges like holiday operations.
This episode features an interview with Jeremy Udovich, co-founder of Sheboygan Vacation Rentals, discussing strategies for maximizing profits from Airbnb listings and sharing insights from real-life hosting experiences.
The host explains how to forecast short-term rental revenue without coding by using AI tools like Claude.
Eric Muller hosts his first solo episode of Get Paid For Your Pad, introducing his 'one-goal method' for achieving business and personal objectives.
David Dodge of OR Getaways explains how he and his wife expanded from a five-bedroom Lincoln City property in 2021 to custom vacation rentals sleeping up to 20 guests.
The host reports 22.36% year-over-year revenue growth across 75 managed portfolios in June, generating $14.425 million compared with $11.789 million the previous year.
This episode demonstrates how to use AI tools like Claude to build a revenue projection tool for business portfolios in under 60 minutes using historical data from PriceLabs.
This episode explains how to forecast short-term rental revenue using Claude AI without coding experience, with a practical demonstration planned for a follow-up video.
Scaling changes the revenue job.
This episode provides a step-by-step guide on how to properly launch new short-term rental units to avoid costly mistakes and maximize revenue, based on the host's 15 years of experience and management of over 3,000 listings.
This episode discusses strategies for property managers to build effective teams and acquire homeowners by focusing on trust, service quality, and operational foundations rather than just price.
The host opens with a blunt claim: if results are not being tracked effectively, revenue management is really just guessing.
A Christmas Eve police call sets the stakes.
This episode features an interview with Troy Daly, CEO of Elevated Stays, discussing how he scaled his short-term rental business to over 95 units while maintaining quality, adapting his leadership role, and managing operations during holidays.
This episode explores the complexities of revenue management for short-term rentals compared to hotels, highlighting how individual property occupancy extremes and lack of tools make STR pricing more challenging.
This episode features an interview with Beth, a successful Airbnb host with over 1,000 five-star reviews, discussing her secrets to achieving high ratings through communication, quality, and amenities.