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“I own a rental that stopped working”
Occupancy is down, cleaning fees are eating the spread, and your city just tightened the rules on nightly stays. The money did not leave. It moved to the thirty-day stay.
You are managing forty guests a month for the income of one tenant.
Your city or HOA restricted stays under thirty days, or is about to.
Every comp in your market dropped at the same moment yours did.
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Sound familiar?
The nightly rental stopped printing money, and the rules are still tightening.
Occupancy is down, cleaning and platform fees are eating whatever is left, and your city just capped stays under thirty days. Meanwhile the unit two blocks away is booked solid at a lower nightly rate — to one tenant, for ninety days, with no turnover at all.
Your occupancy dropped and every comparable listing in your market dropped with it.
You are managing forty guests a month for roughly the income of a single tenant.
Cleaning, turnover and platform fees are consuming the entire spread.
Your city, county or HOA has restricted stays under thirty days — or is about to.
You are answering guest messages at eleven at night for a two-night booking.
You furnished the place for photographs instead of for tenants, and now you replace something every month.
You are carrying a mortgage priced on numbers the property no longer produces.
You have started wondering whether to just sell it at the bottom.
The demand did not disappear. It moved to the thirty-day stay — corporate, medical, and year-round.
Short-term rental
40+ turnovers a month
Nightly regulation risk
Cleaning and platform fees
Seasonal occupancy swings
Constant guest communication
Mid-term rental
1–4 tenants a year
30-day stays sit outside STR rules
Tenant-paid utilities options
Steady corporate and medical demand
Rent premium over long-term
The operating loop
One tenant. Ninety days. Four touches.
This is the entire operating cadence of a mid-term rental. Set it beside forty turnovers a month and the choice makes itself.
Employer verification, stay length, pets, parking — and the two questions that predict an extension.
03
Lease 30+ days
Crossing the thirty-day line takes most nightly-rental ordinances off your back entirely.
04
Mid-stay check
The single touch that turns a ninety-day tenant into a one-hundred-and-eighty-day tenant.
05
Extend or turn
Most stays extend. When one does not, the turn is a planned day rather than a scramble.
Repeat — one to four times a year
Three itemised furnishing budgets and the monthly pricing framework sit behind every step of the loop.
Everything you get
What lands in your inbox, and what each piece does for you.
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The 30-day regulatory threshold explained
Why crossing it takes most short-term rental rules off your back entirely.
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Five demand channels
Travel nursing, corporate relocation, insurance housing, project crews and academic stays, and where each one searches.
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Three itemised furnishing budgets
Roughly $4K, $9K and $16K per unit, so you stop overspending on the wrong things.
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A monthly pricing framework
Priced against both the long-term comp and the hotel comp, not guessed at.
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Listing copy templates
Written for corporate housing coordinators, not for weekend guests.
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12 tenant screening questions
Plus the lease clauses that matter when someone wants to extend or leave early.
Chapter by chapter
Built to be used, not shelved.
01
Why 30 days changes everything
The regulatory line most short-term ordinances draw, why crossing it removes most of the compliance burden, and what it does to your tax and lease treatment.
STR ordinances
Lease vs. license
Occupancy tax
HOA rules
02
The five demand channels
Traveling nurses and allied health, corporate relocation, insurance displacement housing, film and project crews, and academic visitors — where each one searches and what each one pays for.
Travel nursing
Corporate relo
Insurance housing
Project crews
03
Furnish for the tenant, not the photo
Three furnishing budgets with itemized lists, and the specific items mid-term tenants ask about that short-term hosts never think to provide.
$4K build
$9K build
$16K build
Item lists
04
Listing and pricing
How to price a monthly rate against both the long-term comp and the hotel comp, and where to list so that corporate housing coordinators actually find you.
Monthly pricing
Housing coordinators
Listing copy
Direct booking
05
Screening and the lease
Twelve screening questions, the mid-term lease clauses that matter, and how to handle a tenant who wants to extend or leave early.
Screening
Lease clauses
Extensions
Early exit
30day minimum stay
5demand channels
3furnishing budgets
12screening questions
The room you are actually in
Occupancy is down, cleaning fees are eating the spread, and your city just tightened the rules on nightly stays. The money did not leave. It moved to the thirty-day stay.
What changes for you
Four moments this earns its keep.
1
Keep the premium, drop the turnover
Mid-term rents above long-term while running a fraction of the operations.
2
Step outside short-term regulation
Most nightly-rental ordinances stop applying at the 30-day line.
3
Find demand that is not seasonal
Hospital contracts and corporate relocations run all year.
4
Know what to buy before you furnish
Three itemized budgets stop you overspending on the wrong things.
Common questions
Before you buy.
No. The playbook covers both owning and the rental-arbitrage route, including how to get landlord permission in writing.
Usually, but not always. Most ordinances define short-term as under 30 days. You must verify your own city, county, and HOA — the playbook shows you how to check.
Three budgets are given: roughly $4K, $9K, and $16K per unit, each itemized.
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