The 5 Best Short-Term Rental Podcasts in 2026

Looking for a short-term rental podcast that's worth your commute? Well, the good news is this niche has more good shows in it than it's ever had.

The bad news is that every list telling you which one to pick hands you dozens.

Feedspot's roundup is billed as 45 shows. Lodgify's runs to 21. These act more like a directory, not a direct recommendation. Nobody subscribes and actively listens to 45 podcasts.

You've got maybe, what? three, four hours of driving a week? So the question isn't which STR podcasts exist. It's which two or three are worth a permanent spot in your feed.

Here are the five I'd choose from.

How I Picked These Five

I started with 21 candidates, which is pretty much every STR show named in the published roundups plus everything else I could find up by searching.

Then I opened each show's RSS feed and checked whether it was still putting out episodes. A podcast is no good if it's no longer active, right?

Roundups in this niche keep recommending shows that stopped years ago, and a few from my original list already had. Anything dormant was cut, regardless of how good the archive.

What survived got ranked using one question. Does this show do a job that none of the others does?

I care about that more than picking the five biggest, because the biggest five overlap badly.

They interview the same operators about the same deals. You end up hearing one story told five different ways.

Five shows covering five different stages of owning a rental is worth far more of your time, especially if you're looking to learn from these podcasts.

So, here's the final list I came up with:

#	Show	Host	Episodes	Running since	The job it does
1	Short Term Rental Pros	Jeremy Werden	75	2023	Underwriting the deal
2	The Short Term Show	Avery Carl	260	2021	Buying and financing
3	Thanks For Visiting	Annette Grant & Sarah Karakaian	582	2019	Hosting and guest experience
4	Short Term Rental Secrets	Mike Sjogren	382	2020	Systems and scaling
5	Get Paid For Your Pad	Jasper Ribbers & the Freewyld team	724	2014	Pricing and revenue

Episode counts current as of August 2026. All five were publishing new episodes when this was written.

1. Short Term Rental Pros Podcast

Full disclosure before anything else: this one's ours. Jeremy Werden co-founded BNBCalc and he hosts it, so read the next few paragraphs with that in mind.

It still goes first for someone starting from zero, because of two reasons, and a caveat you should weigh against both.

Most STR podcasts are hosted by people who operate. Jeremy operates and underwrites, and the show is built around that second half. Guests walk through what they paid for a property, what it returns, and where their model was wrong.

That's a rarer conversation than it sounds.

Plenty of shows will tell you a cabin cleared six figures. Far fewer will tell you the purchase price, the rehab, and the debt service underneath it.

He isn't describing a portfolio he read about, either. Jeremy runs 25 Airbnb listings and 7 boats generating over $1 million a year through a combination of ownership, co-hosting, arbitrage and glamping.

Now the caveat, because you'll spot it the second you open the feed.

The show ran hard through 2023 and 2024, then went quiet for about twenty months before relaunching in July 2026. So it's a restart, and it hasn't yet rebuilt the unbroken run the four shows below have.

What that short back catalogue buys you is an archive you can finish. Seventy-five episodes is a couple of weekends. Thanks For Visiting is 582, which at one a day is over a year.

If you want to get through a show's entire library before your next acquisition, this is the only one I can suggest where that's realistic.

Prefer to skim? I've written up recaps of much of the back catalogue, including Sabrina Guler on leaving Apple to start Techvestor and Ryan Bakke on creative finance.

Start with the intro episode to see whether the format lands for you.

2. The Short Term Show

Underwriting tells you whether a deal works. Avery Carl's show is about going out and closing one.

She bought her first Airbnb in 2015 and has since built a portfolio of over 250 doors.

That's the detail that makes the show work. She's a broker as well as an investor, so her guests are people she has transacted with.

That tilts the interviews toward how deals get financed, negotiated and closed rather than how they get modelled. It's the gap most new investors fall into, and the archive has 260 episodes in it since 2021.

She's also the author of Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth and runs The Short Term Shop, which its own description calls the country's largest Airbnb-specific real estate team. A lot of episodes are her stress-testing her earlier advice against what the market did next, and I find that more useful than a clean pitch.

One thing to watch. Much of what gets discussed assumes American financing norms.

If you're buying outside the States, take the strategy and leave the loan structure.

3. Thanks For Visiting

Avery gets you to closing. Annette Grant and Sarah Karakaian are about everything that happens after you own the thing.

582 episodes since 2019, and in seven and a half years they've never gone more than about a month without publishing.

That consistency is worth more than it sounds. It means you can drop into the archive anywhere and not hit a dead patch.

Their archive is where I send every brand-new host who asks me.

The split between the two of them is why it works.

Annette's background is business operations, Sarah's is high-end hospitality and interior design, so one of them is always asking the unglamorous follow-up question the other skipped.

They talk about the parts nobody puts in a spreadsheet. Cleaner turnover. Guest communication. What to do when a stay goes sideways at 11pm.

I'd argue that operational load is most of the answer if you're still weighing short-term against long-term at all. My STR vs LTR breakdown handles the math side of the same question.

4. Short Term Rental Secrets

Annette and Sarah get you through the first property. Mike Sjogren's guests are trying to survive their tenth.

His show has 382 episodes going back to 2020, and it publishes more heavily than anything else on this list.

The stated mission is helping investors launch, automate and scale. For my money it's the middle word that earns the slot.

Automation, hiring, delegation, and how to stop being the bottleneck in your own business once you're past three or four doors.

Nobody else here treats that as the main subject.

Thanks For Visiting will teach you to host beautifully, but it assumes you're the one doing it. Mike's guests want out of the operation entirely.

The volume does mean some episodes run thinner than others. I cherry-pick by title here rather than listening front to back.

Jeremy has been a guest on this one too, talking through how to analyze an STR in five minutes.

5. Get Paid For Your Pad

Systems keep you sane. Pricing is what pays for them, and nobody has been talking about it longer than Jasper Ribbers.

He started in 2014. That's 724 episodes going back twelve years, which makes this both the longest-running show of the five and the biggest catalogue of the lot.

Twelve years in a niche this faddish is some achievement!

It isn't a solo show any more, either. Jasper now shares hosting with Eric Moeller and Kaye Putnam at Freewyld Foundry, which has pushed it toward revenue management and listing optimization rather than general hosting talk.

Twelve years is long enough that the archive has turned into a record of how the industry changed. Back then Airbnb was your only distribution channel, and revenue management wasn't yet a discipline anybody named.

The recent run leans hard into pricing strategy, which is why I keep it in rotation.

Still setting nightly rates by hand, or trusting Airbnb's smart pricing without ever checking it? This is where I'd start.

Two That Nearly Made It

Cutting to five means leaving out shows that are genuinely good. Two came close enough that you might reasonably overrule me.

Alex and Annie, hosted by Alex Husner and Annie Holcombe, sits at 287 episodes since 2021 and publishes as heavily as anything in my top five.

It leans toward the professional side of the industry, conferences and management companies rather than a host with two cabins.

That's my only reason for leaving it out. If you run this as a business rather than a side investment, swap it in.

Short Term Rental Riches is Tim Hubbard's, at 351 episodes since 2019. It's excellent on remote management and systems.

It also overlaps heavily with Short Term Rental Secrets, and subscribing to both gets you the same lesson twice.

Which Two to Start With

If we're being honest, five is already more than most people keep up with, so I'd start with two and add from there.

Buying your first property? Take The Short Term Show for the acquisition mechanics and Short Term Rental Pros for the underwriting behind it.

Already hosting and trying to stop drowning? Thanks For Visiting for the guest side, Short Term Rental Secrets for the systems.

Somewhere past five doors and squeezing the existing portfolio? Get Paid For Your Pad for pricing, Short Term Rental Secrets for everything else.

One thing I'd hold onto while you listen, though.

Every operator on every one of these shows is describing a deal that worked in their market, at their basis, with their financing. That's the whole value of the format and it's also the trap.

The cabin that worked in Gatlinburg tells you nothing about the one you're looking at in Scottsdale.

So run your own numbers before you copy anyone's playbook. That's the one piece of advice I'd put above any episode on this list.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best short-term rental podcast for beginners?

Thanks For Visiting is the strongest starting point for a new host. Annette Grant and Sarah Karakaian have published more than 580 episodes since 2019 and focus on the operational side of hosting, including cleaner turnover, guest communication and handling problems mid-stay. For the buying and underwriting side instead, The Short Term Show and Short Term Rental Pros Podcast are better fits.

How were these short-term rental podcasts ranked?

Twenty-one shows were considered, drawn from published roundups and general search. Any show that had stopped publishing was cut, regardless of how good its archive was. The remaining shows were ranked on whether each covers a stage of ownership the others do not, rather than on audience size or episode volume. The final order reflects editorial judgment, not a numeric score.

Are there any short-term rental podcasts that are no longer active?

Yes, and several still appear in search results and in published roundups. Vacation Rental Machine published 156 episodes and stopped in February 2022. The Hosting Journey stopped in late 2021 after 136 episodes. Bill Faeth Unfiltered and No Vacancy both went quiet during 2026, and The Boostly Podcast slowed sharply. Their archives remain useful, though none reflects current Airbnb policy or market conditions.

Who hosts the Short Term Rental Pros Podcast?

Jeremy Werden hosts the Short Term Rental Pros Podcast. He is the co-founder and Chief Evangelist of BNBCalc and runs a portfolio of 25 Airbnb listings and 7 boats generating over $1 million annually through property ownership, co-hosting, rental arbitrage and glamping. The show launched in 2023, has published 75 episodes, and relaunched in July 2026 after a break.

Which short-term rental podcast covers direct bookings?

The Boostly Podcast, hosted by Mark Simpson, is the most focused show on direct bookings, with 769 episodes on reducing reliance on Airbnb and Booking.com. Its publishing slowed sharply during 2026, but the back catalogue remains the deepest resource on the topic. Get Paid For Your Pad covers distribution alongside revenue management and is still publishing regularly.