I'm a SuperHost! Wait, what?
This is a love story, really. It all started at the end of 2015 when my wife Wendy and I went to attend a trade show in Florida on Amelia Island. We'd never been, it was a good time to get away and we wanted to promote TeamBonding more in Florida. Sounds innocent enough, right? It wasn't until the last evening when we had a free night to have dinner and drove the hour or so to this place we'd never been, St. Augustine, Florida.
We had dinner on the water at a place called Caps which was recommended by a fellow exhibitor at the trade show and after dinner, we drove into downtown and had some waffles and ice cream and if I remember correctly a homemade popsicle. It wasn't only about the food but this town (although it is varied and very good), Saint Augustine was all lit up for what they called Nights of Lights, every building, every street and dozens of red and orange trolleys were going by with people singing Christmas Carols. There was the horse drawn carriages and all the Spanish Architecture - this town was almost 450 years old and we'd never heard of it. How could that be? Where were we? Wherever we were we had to go back and we did.
We went back to St. Augustine (never sure how to spell it) a couple of times and thought we had found paradise and wanted to spend more time there so we looked for houses for sale, we looked while we were there, we looked on the internet when we were back home. We found a great Airbnb in a great area of town called Lincolnville, (near this awesome breakfast place, the Blue Hen) that we almost bought but found out that all the reviews stay with the homeowner so if we bought it, we'd have to start all over again. We didn't want to do that again until we did. We kept looking and walked every street from uptown to downtown and found an apartment over a wine and gift store for rent. We talked to the landlord and in December of last year we rented it and turned it into a vacation rental which we started renting in March of this year. We loved it, we furnished it, well when I say we I mean Wendy, decorated it and we learned about Airbnb and VRBO and listed it starting in March and the quest for being a SuperHost began.
Here we are in July and we were awarded the designation of SuperHost by having 24 reviews, all 5 stars and the guests love it and we love them and that's just on Airbnb, we are doing very well on the other site too. We have been down there a dozen times with the kids, with my brother and his wife and with friends. Everyone loves the history, the people, the beaches, the beach club, the waterfront where we saw the fireworks and the ocean where we saw fireworks on New Year's Eve and in our spare time we have become pretty good at this vacation rental thing - and have fallen head over heals in love with this town. You have to check it out and come stay with us or without us!
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