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Ep 183: Attract Traveling Professionals with WorkBnB! Yeves & Daj
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Yves Perez and Daj Anique are launching WorkBnB, an OTA platform for traveling workers, in January 2022. After Yves helped his mother pivot from vacation rentals to workforce rentals during COVID - growing her revenue 300% and maintaining 95% occupancy through 2020 - the couple founded the platform to solve the booking headaches construction companies, traveling nurses, and remote workers face. WorkBnB will let travel managers do bulk searches, drop properties into a shopping cart, and pay entire six-month stays upfront via wire transfer at rates like $125 per person per night. Hosts must pass a hospitality certification, provide a desk, and list whole homes only - no shared rooms.
The episode covers why 464 million annual business trips and 55 million essential workers represent a better market than leisure travelers, how to pitch property managers with terms like "workforce rentals" and "corporate relocation," the value of joining local builders associations to meet project executives before construction starts, and why the couple chose quality over quick-listing volume. Myka and Steve discuss their own pivots toward longer stays, the challenges of buying properties through traditional lenders versus hard money, and the importance of door-knocking and cold-calling to find off-market deals with real equity.
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Myka — Sharebnb: www.sharebnb.com
Steve — Argest Rentals: www.ArgestRentals.com
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