Starting out
How to Start a Corporate Housing Business: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to start a corporate housing business: choose a model, pick a market and a niche, set up legally, furnish units, price for vacancy, win clients and run it well.
Guides for running a corporate housing business.
Practical, plain-English guides for operators: starting out, winning clients, leases, billing, taxes, furniture, deposits and the systems that hold it together.
Starting out
Corporate Housing vs Airbnb vs Hotels: How to Explain the Difference
Corporate housing vs Airbnb vs hotels for stays of 30 nights or more: space, services, billing, taxes, flexibility and cost, with a guide to which fits when.
Starting out
How to Get Corporate Housing Clients: 9 Channels That Work
Where corporate housing clients come from: relocation companies, HR and travel teams, hospitals and staffing agencies, insurers, government, universities and more.
Starting out
Mid-Term Rentals vs Corporate Housing: What Is the Difference?
Mid-term rentals and corporate housing both mean furnished stays of a month or more. The difference: who pays, how it is sold and billed, and the standards.
Operations
Corporate Housing Lease Agreements: What to Include
What a corporate housing lease should cover: parties, term and extensions, notice, rent and proration, deposits, pets, access, damage and e-signatures.
Operations
Furniture Setup and Teardown: Running Logistics for Furnished Rentals
How corporate housing operators run furniture: buy or rent, standard packages, inventory, delivery scheduling, setup and teardown crews, photos and damage.
Operations
Occupancy Rate for Corporate Housing: How to Calculate and Improve It
The occupancy rate formula for corporate housing, with ADR, RevPAR, average length of stay and turn days, worked examples, and seven ways to raise occupancy.
Operations
Security Deposits and Damage Charges in Corporate Housing
How corporate housing operators handle security deposits and damage: who pays, inspections with photos, wear and tear vs damage, itemized deductions and deadlines.
Operations
The Corporate Housing Move-In and Move-Out Checklist
A move-in and move-out checklist for corporate housing operators: unit readiness, paperwork, arrival, the first 48 hours, notice, inspection, deposit and turn.
Money & tax
1099s for Corporate Housing Operators: W-9s, the $2,000 Threshold and E-Filing
Which vendor and rent payments corporate housing operators report on 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC, the $2,000 threshold for 2026, W-9s, exceptions and e-filing.
Money & tax
How to Prorate Rent for Move-Ins and Move-Outs (3 Methods)
How to calculate prorated rent for a partial month: the days-in-month, 30-day and 365-day methods, worked examples for move-in and move-out, and which to use.
Money & tax
Lodging Tax and the 30-Day Rule: A Guide for Corporate Housing Operators
How hotel occupancy taxes treat long stays: the 30-consecutive-day exemption, written notice, continuous occupancy, places with other rules, and how to run it.
Money & tax
Master Leases in Corporate Housing: How the Model Works
How corporate housing operators lease units from communities and owners: landlord permission, the economics, break-even occupancy and the risks.
Segments
Insurance Housing (ALE) Placements: A Guide for Corporate Housing Operators
How insurance displacement housing works for operators: additional living expense coverage, who books, what families need, billing the carrier and extensions.
Software
Why Corporate Housing Spreadsheets Break (and When to Switch)
The ways corporate housing workbooks fail as you grow, the signs it is time to move to software, what to look for, and how to switch without losing a month.
Free tools
Do the math in seconds.
Calculators and a glossary for the numbers and words of the business.
Beta launching January 1, 2027
Run your whole portfolio from one screen.
The Staylio beta opens to corporate housing operators on January 1, 2027. Get on the list, or see it first on a demo.
Beta launches January 1, 2027