Okay, everybody, welcome to the new episode of the Boosely Podcast. This is the podcast that

gives hosts the tactics, the tools, the training, and most importantly, the confidence to go out there

and get more direct bookends. My name is Liam Carolan, Mark Simpson's co-host, and today we are

shining the spotlight onto a very special guest. I'm really pleased to have them both here.

We've got Elliot Coldwell, and he's a founder and Michael Elefante, who is the co-founder of Home

Team Vacation Rentals. Now, this is a business which you're going to want to go and Google and

go and check out. You may remember Michael, who has been on the podcast before. He's featured,

and we discussed the B&B Investor Academy and had an amazing chat about all things social

media and short-term rental at the time. He's back and he's joined by his business partner,

Elliot, and today we're talking about their short-term rental business, and also we're going to be

talking about the formula for short-term rental success. Let's dive in. Welcome along, Elliot,

and welcome back, Michael. Thank you. Thank you for having us.

Awesome. Thank you for joining me today. Let's start how we normally do, which is can you briefly

just tell us a bit about your role within the business? What your favorite thing about being a host

is as well, and if we start with yourself, Elliot? Yeah. Founded Home Team. We're

trying to tinkering with it. Michael and I, probably beginning March, April of this year,

then officially launched on August 1st. I run everything day-to-day and then Michael,

as he runs Airbnb Academy, and has his sales team, and then he's also talking to our sales team

and helping us out with a bunch of leads via social media. I run the day-to-day and have a team

behind us. We have a team of nine full-team employees in the states, and then we have five full-time

virtual assistants to help out with guest communication. And yeah, so August 1st, we kind of

launched officially, and it has been a wild growth since then. Since August 1st, we've grown it to,

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