Unlock Your Rental's Hidden Potential with Data

**Myles** (0:00)
Hello, everyone, and welcome to today's episode of the Hospitable Hosts podcast. My name is Myles, and I'm the head of marketing here at Hospitable. Today, I am speaking with Andrea Jordan, who is the owner of Stays Optimized. She works on consulting, coaching, optimization, and full service management for shops and rental hosts. And she recently launched her tool, PropertyIQ, using Hospitable's MCP functionality. And so today, we're going to learn more about that. And as always, if you enjoy today's episode, please don't forget to like, share, and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.
Okay. Hello, Andrea. And thank you so much for joining us today. How are you doing?

**Andrea Jordan** (0:43)
I'm doing great, Myles. Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor to be here. I love your show.

**Myles** (0:49)
Awesome. Thank you. Appreciate it. So yeah, so to get started, Andrea, for listeners who haven't come across you before, can you tell us a bit about yourself, your kind of experience, your hosting journey, maybe a little bit more about Stays Optimized?

**Andrea Jordan** (1:05)
Sure. My name is Andrea Jordan, and I am the founder of Stays Optimized. I would say my journey to Stays Optimized started with an abandoned building that I stumbled upon, kind of made a deal with the owner, and I single-handedly renovated it and turned it into this beautiful, amazing, income-generating property, sold it, and am managing it to this day. It is really my flagship listing, and I'm super proud of it, and the owners, we've really come a long way.
So that's pretty much how Stays Optimized started when I decided to sell and get into property management more full-time, because I love hosting and I didn't want it to be the end, right? So I just took on more listings and really honed in my management skills.

**Myles** (1:59)
Nice. Excellent. And then alongside obviously your management side of things, you recently built PropertyIQ. Can you tell us a bit more about that and the problem that you're trying to solve there?

**Andrea Jordan** (2:11)
Sure. I'm so proud of it. It's such an amazing tool.
Well, the beginnings of PropertyIQ came from me doing annual data collection, data analysis, to onboard more properties. I had a listing who the owners, kind of a fix and flip type of a guy, and he asked me to come over and meet with his realtor and himself to look at the property and see what potential it had. And I did.
I booked a room, I drove all the way over there, and the night before I was supposed to meet with them, my entire computer crashed. I was not even able to save the hard drive. So it was a lot of fumbling, redoing, and then I came across the idea, kind of came to me to use the MCP connection with Hospitable, and use that for an analysis for the property, and kind of make it kind of a holistic, comprehensive. And it was 10 times better than what I had previously come up with, that I took weeks to put together. So that was kind of the birth of PropertyIQ. Since then, it has definitely flushed out. It's so much more robust now, since I've had time to kind of really zone in on it, and work it out so that it really is the most comprehensive of an analysis out there. I checked all the tools. I used all of the tools, and it kind of just consolidated it into one. So now, I can use it as a property manager. I can use it with my investors, and I can absolutely use it for my realtors as well.

**Myles** (3:59)
Nice. That's awesome. And what are some of the insights that it's pointing out to hosts? Maybe give us some examples of the things that it's helping hosts to see, to help them solve, to help them grow and optimize their business.

**Andrea Jordan** (4:14)
Sure. Well, for existing hosts, when you're onboarding a property, I think this is where PropertyIQ really shines because it looks at every listing strategy you could possibly do for that house, for that home or that property. Whether you're going to also list maybe your hot tub on Swimpley, there's different optimization strategies you can present in the report.
The other part of it is that it selects the data for all your comps. So it kind of gives you this really nice packaged report where you're, with clickable links, verifiable data, that you can have your comps done for you and you can get a 12-month pricing strategy. So we also have a launching strategy map as well. But the blueprint to optimization is really key with PropertyIQ because it really tells you maybe you can do two listings out of one property where you can mother, daughter, home or something. You can do a parent-child relationship. So that's really where it shines, really, is on onboarding and doing the analysis for a home. Also, not every property is for every property manager, right? So we all have different things that we like or don't like about our businesses.