Stay Ready started from a love of running my own Airbnb in Mount Maunganui.
I know which streets get the afternoon sun, which weekends fill up first, and recomendations in the area to ensure guests have the best experience. That local knowledge is the whole point - it's not something you can outsource to a call centre.
Stay Ready is deliberately small, not dozens of homes managed from a spreadsheet, but a handful I genuinely look after as if they were my own. This means your property gets every care and detail. Styling that photographs well, pricing that moves with the season, and guest messages answered by someone who's a five-minute drive away.
If something goes wrong, I'm the one who turns up. That's the difference.
OUR APPROACH
We take care of everything.
We want owning a holiday home rental easy.
You shouldn't have to worry about whether the cleaner turned up and the house is guest ready, what price the house should be on those dates, or what happens when something goes wrong. That's what we're here for.
We look after your property as if it was our own - keeping an eye on bookings, pricing, guests, cleaning and all the little things that come with people staying in your home.
And on the rare occassion something does go wrong, we're close by to sort it out.
You're still in control.
We don't come in and tell you how you have to run your property.
We'll give you our honest advice when we think something could work better, but at the end of the day, it's your home. You decide what you're comfortable with, how you want it looked after and how involved you want to be.
Some owners want to know everything. Some don't want to think about it at all. We're happy either way.
We also send a simple report each month so you can see how things are going — what you've earned, what your nightly rates are looking like, how busy you've been and what guests are saying.
We care about the details.
Every property is properly cleaned and reset between guests, with attention paid to the things that are easy to miss. Not just a quick tidy-up before the next check-in.
We use ecostore products wherever we can, to help reduce our footprint on the environment.
We also keep an eye on the little details along the way. If something needs replacing, fixing or a bit of extra attention, we'll let you know and help sort it.
We want every guest to walk through the door and feel like they're the first person to stay there.