Okay, welcome to the Boosley podcast and thank you for listening in. This is the podcast that

gives hosts the tools, the tactics, the trainings on how you can get more direct bookings. My name

is Liam Caroline. I'm Mark Simpson's co-host and today we're going behind the host. We have a

successful and interesting short-term rental host and where we're going to ask questions about

her business. We're going to extract some of that juicy information that you can learn from and

you can action and implement into your hospitality business. Today, I'm going to introduce to

you at Daya Liu. She's a former lawyer who now does short-term rentals and actually buys hotels,

which is amazing and something we're going to dive into. Welcome along, Daya. Thank you. Thank you

for having me on. No worries. Thank you for joining us today. In one sentence, can you describe

what you do at the moment? If a stranger would say, hey, what do you do? What do you say to them?

My one sentence answer to that is I travel around the US and sometimes the world and then buy

hotels and vacation rentals. I mean, that's pretty cool, straight away. That's pretty cool. So

let's take me back to before hospitality. What did you do before hospitality and how did you

lead into the world of hospitality? I was trained as a chemical engineer and biochemistry

double major and then I went into law school because I decided that law school was just a shorter

route to success, in my opinion, than PhD program. And so I practiced litigation with representing

fortune 500 companies for about five years, both in New York City and Austin, Texas. And basically,

I really wanted to get into real estate investing. So I moved back to my hometown of Austin, Texas

before the real estate prices got too expensive. And I started house hacking and just renting out

on Airbnb really once I bought my first house. And that's really how I fell in love with the

concept of hosting folks and creating really unique experiences. I really like interior design.

So that just everything just fell into place. And whereabouts is your hospitality business at the

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