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    <description>Notes on operating Texas property.</description>
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      <title>Build or buy property management software</title>
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      <description>Most property managers should buy something off the shelf. The exceptions are narrow and specific, and knowing which one you are is the whole decision.</description>
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      <title>What a short-term rental manager actually does</title>
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      <description>The work behind a management fee, listed honestly: what is daily, what is seasonal, what is invisible, and what you should not be paying anyone for.</description>
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      <description>If you cannot tell what you earned, what it cost and why, from one page without asking, the statement is not doing its job. What to demand.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Should you self-manage or hand it over?</title>
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      <description>An honest way to decide, from a manager who will tell you not to hire one. The four things that actually determine it, and the maths that does not.</description>
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      <title>The first thirty days after handover</title>
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      <description>What a competent handover looks like week by week, what should already be visible, and the signals that tell you early it is not going well.</description>
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      <title>Why your Airbnb and Vrbo calendars disagree</title>
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      <description>Listing one property on three channels means three calendars that only mostly agree. Here is why they drift, and what actually stops a double booking.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Why we built our own software</title>
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      <description>Not because the tools are bad. Because two of the four things we needed were things nobody sells, and the rest we could not check from outside.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Write a listing that turns the wrong guest away</title>
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      <description>Every sentence that disqualifies someone costs a booking and saves a review. How to write the parts most listings quietly leave out, and why.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Photographing a remote property properly</title>
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      <description>Most rural listings are photographed at the wrong time of day, in the wrong order, and with the wrong thing in frame. What we do instead, and why.</description>
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      <description>Solar, hauled water and an hour of dirt road change every part of running a short-term rental. What we learned operating one in Brewster County.</description>
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      <description>A clean is the easy part. On a remote property the turnover is a supply run, an inspection and a drive, and scheduling it tightly is how it breaks.</description>
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      <description>A genuinely dark sky fills midweek and shoulder-season nights that nothing else will. How to describe it honestly and price around the moon.</description>
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      <description>The other half of what we buy: not remote land but Dallas–Fort Worth rentals, where demand is already provable and the upside is operational.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Water is what decides a rural Texas parcel</title>
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      <description>A well, a haul or nothing at all changes what land can be used for and what it costs to hold. The questions to ask before you offer, and who to ask.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Access, water, minerals, dues and the road. The questions that decide whether a cheap parcel is a bargain or a thing you cannot use, and who to ask.</description>
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