I started hosting on Airbnb over a decade ago — back when the platform was still finding its footing and the entire short-term rental industry was figuring itself out. I made every mistake in the book: underpriced my listing, wrote a terrible description, missed guest messages because I was in a meeting, and once had a cleaning crew no-show an hour before check-in.
Over time, I figured it out. I earned Super Host status. I grew my portfolio. I learned what separates a $120/night listing from a $240/night listing in the same city with comparable properties. I hosted more than 2,000 guests across multiple Texas properties — and I genuinely loved most of it.
Eventually I hired a cohost service to take the day-to-day off my plate. They charged 25% of my gross revenue — which sounds reasonable until you do the math. On a property generating $4,000/month, that's $1,000 every month, $12,000 every year, going to a company that was basically forwarding my messages and scheduling my cleaner. I could see exactly what they were doing, and I knew it wasn't worth a quarter of my income.
Around that same time, I got my Texas real estate broker license. I wanted to understand property management law at a deeper level — and I did. I also saw just how much the industry was ripe for disruption. The incumbents were expensive, generic, and slow.
When AI tools started becoming genuinely capable — not just chatbots, but systems that could handle guest communication with real nuance, adapt to context, manage pricing dynamically, and coordinate operational workflows — I saw the opportunity clearly. I spent two years building, testing, and refining what became Eazly. It's the cohost service I always wanted but could never find. So I built it myself.