Okay, so it looks like we are live. So welcome to another episode of Behind the Host podcast and today is going to be a little bit different.

So today I'm joined by the founder and CMO of Smiling House Maria Rockman and I'm really excited to speak to her about her new start up triangle luxury.

Now if you're a host and or a property manager and you deal with holiday lips in general, this is something that you're going to really want to pay attention to.

This is exciting. This is new and you need to spend the next sort of 20 minutes or so really understanding what triangle luxury is and how it could help you as a property manager and also some of your owners and some of the investors that you might invest for.

So today let's introduce Maria. Thank you for coming along and and welcome.

Thank you so great to be here. Thank you for taking the time. I'm very excited to introduce a triangle luxury and cooperation with the Pusly. So yeah.

Well, let's get started by not everybody who's listening will necessarily have come across here.

So if you introduce yourself and a little bit about both Smiling House and and triangle luxury.

Okay, so I'm Maria Rockman. I'm from Switzerland. I'm originally from Israel. Maybe you can pick it up for my accent and I'm the founder and the CMO of Smiling House, which is today.

We have a community management and an OTA focusing on luxury accommodation worldwide. We are active in the 33 countries and you can check it.

Check us out as a channel via booking pal or rentals United.

But today I want to talk to you about something else.

In the last few years working in Smiling House, we got more and more people coming knocking on our door and asking us how much this properties cost.

Yes, we're staying in a place like wishing to buy the property where they're staying. Of course, this is happening more in luxury than in other circumstances, but I'm sure that it's maybe been part of your experience as well.

I heard it for many, many, many hosts around the world that they've been exposed for for for for kind of request about purchasing buying the house with their management and because of their management.

And I'm happy to say that we in Smiling House sold in the last two, two and a half years, mostly since the pandemic started six houses in the total worth of 25 million dollars to mostly to our guests and to also to some kind of hosts overseas that wanted to to extend their season.

And instead of just some destination to have a winter destination and then I said to myself like hey, this can't be does something over here can't be that it's only happening to me.

And I start to investigate it was a bit hard because it was the time that we couldn't meet each other and it was all via zooms with people from the other hand more time.

And I realized that a lot of my colleagues, the people I'm working with in everyday life from St. Bart's till Central Pay had some experience and we all talked about it and how how do you how do you give the information about the house about your management and it's all about excels and from your PMS and things like this, but nothing that's really suitable for

for the real state world. And then this is the moment where I kind of say okay, this is something big, I have to be busy with that.

And I'm a pioneer, I serial entrepreneur, so I didn't a delayed one second more start to develop a triangle and today I'm happy to show you how you

property managers can be all homeowners in case that you are managing your own properties can be involved in real estate deals and even more important than than the one part of being involved and be part of a sale.

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