Behind the Scenes STR Reveal Part Two with Angela Heydorn I Episode 106
The David Greene Show
David Greene
4.9 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In part two of the Bear Cub Inn turnaround, David and Angela share design ideas that worked to improve the properties appeal they were able to accomplish on a budget. They share details about the improved occupancy rate, length of stay, and type of guest that is booking as well as their plans to increase the Average Daily Rate over time. They also share information about pricing most people haven’t considered, how they decrease orphan days, and tricks for getting bookings that would have gone to other properties otherwise. If you enjoyed last week's podcast, make sure you download this one today!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Real Talk Real Estate, the show where we cover how to build wealth in real estate with no fluff, no BS, and no sales pitches. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm David Green, and I've been doing this for over 10 years. I've seen the ups, the downs, and everything in between. |
| 0:12.8 | This is the show where we pull back the curtain and show it to you too. So if you want to build wealth through real estate or you just love learning about it, you found your home. |
| 0:22.4 | All right. Now, today's show is actually a continuance of last week's show which was part one of the bear cub in transformation |
| 0:27.6 | we kind of shared a lot of the before and after pictures we talked about the struggles that we had when we |
| 0:32.6 | got the property we talked about the fact that the property manager kept all of the money and then some because of all of the expenses that were associated with it and how horrible that was. |
| 0:42.3 | Well, in today's show, we're going to get into what we did that turned it around. |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to talk about how your pricing is so important and tips and tricks that other people aren't sharing unless you pay a whole bunch of money to be in a course. And we're going to tell you how we manage my properties to make them profitable and how we can help you do the same for yours. So thanks for being here. Angela, welcome to the show again. Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here. I'm glad to hear that. I think everybody's excited to see you because they're going to try to figure out how are you guys making STR's work in an environment where they suck. So let's get into part two. |
| 1:15.9 | If you're looking to do small upgrades and you don't want to spend a lot of money, you also don't |
| 1:20.8 | have to do it all at once. So like David mentioned, there are some photos that we think are ugly, |
| 1:27.1 | but they weren't that important for the photos. Can you see them? Yes. Is it going to be a make or break for someone booking it? Probably not, because we changed the comforters. As David mentioned earlier, we'll go to it again, but we changed some small things that made a very big difference in the photos. And I think that those things were most important to, like you said, break up the color |
| 1:46.7 | with the pine and the wood and the yellows and the browns. |
| 1:50.6 | So you can do some of those things. |
| 1:51.8 | You don't have to spend $100,000 and replace everything at once and replace all the |
| 1:56.3 | chandeliers and the lighting and the comforters and the artwork. |
| 1:59.5 | You can do it and get the biggest bang for your buck. |
| 2:02.8 | What's going to make the photos look the best? And that's obviously something we can help with too. |
| 2:06.7 | But you don't have to do it all at once because I was in this position where when I had my beach house, |
| 2:11.7 | I'm like, I have money to buy this house. I don't have more money to update it. So went to home goods and hobby lobby and my mom taught |
| 2:21.7 | me to never buy anything full price. So I'm really good at finding a good deal. And that's what I did. |
| 2:26.0 | So yeah, you don't have to do it all once. I think it's one of the other big. And we kind of talked |
| 2:31.8 | about that. Do we go one cabinet at a time and do every one of them as good |
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