Streamlined Stays
• Short-term rental operating partner

You shouldn't have to hand over your property just to have it run professionally.

I can tell you whether to buy it, build the launch, run the revenue engine, or operate the whole property. Start with the help you need. Keep the control you want. Learn the system as we go.

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The operating record.

Nothing about your property would be a first.

Owner-attested, as of 2026
273+
STRs operated
120
Listings launched
16,900+
Reservations facilitated
$94.5M+
Real estate stewarded
78
Owner-clients served
28
Markets, across 8 states

Career totals across every short-term rental company built. Not a projection for any one property.

Where you are

Three ways owners arrive here.

The right first step is different for each one.

You are self-managing, and it became a second job.

The property earns, but it costs you every weekend and most weeknights. The question is which parts to hand off first.

See how much to hand off →

You have a manager, and the numbers do not add up.

Occupancy looks fine and the deposit does not. An audit finds what the listing, the pricing and the process are leaking, in writing, in two business days.

Start an audit, $250 →

You are buying, and it is not launched yet.

Before you tie up capital, get a go or no-go on the actual property. It is allowed to come back negative, and often does.

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The system

Choose how much to hand off.

Use me for judgment, execution, or the whole operation. You can move between the three as the property changes.

I

Advise. You run it.

Strategy, diagnosis and underwriting, plus a second set of eyes on the calls that matter. Your accounts, your decisions, your execution.

II

Optimize. I run the engine.

I take defined performance functions: pricing, calendar, listings, distribution and channel strategy. You keep the guest and property relationship if you want it.

III

Operate. I run the whole thing.

Full operating support, with a remote ops desk and local ground coordination behind it. Your property, your accounts, your revenue. I run the operation under your authority.

What changes across the three, and what never does.
FunctionAdviseOptimizeOperate
StrategyYou + JakeYou + JakeYou + Jake
ExecutionYouSharedJake + team
AccountsYoursYoursYours
Final authorityYoursYoursYours

The work

From the first address to the hundredth stay.

Four lanes. Most owners need one or two of them at a time.

Buy

Decide whether the deal is worth your capital, before you commit it.

  • Feasibility and regulatory posture
  • Market selection and comp analysis
  • Underwriting
  • Acquisition and portfolio strategy

Launch

Everything between a closed deal and a property that takes bookings well.

  • Design, build-out and furnishing alignment
  • Vendor and property-care setup
  • Photography and listing creation
  • Channel distribution and tech stack
  • Pricing and go-live

Improve

The engine work on a property that is already running.

  • Pricing, calendar and revenue management
  • Listing conversion and channel mix
  • Direct-booking infrastructure
  • Operational tightening
  • Review and guest-experience feedback loops

Operate

The day-to-day, run by a desk instead of by you.

  • Guest operations and remote ops desk
  • Property care coordination
  • Maintenance escalation
  • Reservation oversight
  • Claims and issue handling, as scoped
  • Owner reporting

You don't have to buy all four.

Foundation first. Then the rest.

Out of order is how owners pay to optimize a property they should never have bought.

Step one

Stabilize the foundation

The tech stack, the accounts, the standards. I fix what is loose before I optimize anything.

Step two

Build momentum

Bookings, reviews and trust first. Higher pricing is earned, not forced. I watch the signals, not my guesses.

Step three

Hand off, on your terms

Keep advising, or hand more to me over time. The operating relationship changes as your needs change.

Intelligence

Use the same instruments I use to make decisions.

No sales gate, no email required. Start with the question you actually need answered.

One · Free Deal Check

Eight questions that decide whether a deal is worth underwriting.

These are the questions I ask before taking any acquisition seriously, and the same first-pass logic I use before deciding whether a property deserves deeper underwriting.

Question 1 of 8

Have you confirmed that short-term rentals are legally permitted at this property's address - including any permit, registration, or owner-occupancy requirements?

Local STR regulations vary dramatically by city, county, and HOA. A property in a jurisdiction that restricts or prohibits STRs cannot operate regardless of its other qualities. This is a go/no-go input, not a minor detail.

No email required. Nothing leaves your browser.

Two · The market map

Where do you want to own and operate?

Start with the kind of place, not a spreadsheet. Pick a landscape, then the market, and its real year appears: what it earned each month, when it earned it, and how far apart its best and worst months are.

Pick a landscape

Every figure is that market's own, not its state's. Twelve months of real occupancy, nightly rate and RevPAR per market, from the same PriceLabs index I price against. Markets are captured on different days, so each one carries its own window. PriceLabs STR Index, via the Xenia market brain. Set covers July to July.

The operating arc

A property changes. The operating model should change with it.

  1. 01

    Before you buy

    Decision

    Feasibility, regulatory posture, underwriting, market and comp analysis. The cheapest phase to get right and the most expensive to get wrong.

  2. 02

    Offer to first guest

    Launch

    Build-out, systems, listings, pricing, photography, channels and property care. Most of the first year's revenue is decided in this window.

  3. 03

    First full cycle

    Stabilize

    Reviews, operating cadence, pricing feedback and quality control, through one peak and one trough. The year you find out what the property really is.

  4. 04

    Year two

    Optimize

    Conversion, revenue, channel mix, direct demand and owner involvement, all moved on evidence from this property rather than market averages.

  5. 05

    Year three and beyond

    Portfolio decision

    Hold, refinance, add another, keep advising, or hand more of the operation over. By here the property has a record instead of a projection.

Direct booking becomes more valuable as repeat demand, first-party traffic and a real operating record compound, which is not the same as a year on the calendar.

See the full operating arc
A note from the founder

I've spent most of my working life in operations where standards matter.

First on federal wildland firefighting crews in California and Colorado. Then running short-term rentals across the country.

The work is different. The principle isn't. Things run well when capable people are paying attention, standards are clear, and the right systems are in place before something goes wrong.

That's why I built Streamlined Stays.

To help owners make better decisions, learn the business faster, and run their properties professionally without giving up control just to get competent help.

Jake Lee
Founder, Streamlined Stays
Part of the Xenia Network
Ξ Held to one standard, across every property.

Let's see what your property is really capable of.

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