Thursday, December 29, 2016

T.J. Clark of TurnKey Joins Aaron Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #519

This week's guest is T.J. Clark, interviewed by Aaron Norris. T.J. is park of TurnKey Rentals. Prior to co-founding them, he was the president and CEO of Limos.com, which became the largest online marketplace for limo and car service. It expanded globally and launched partnerships with companies like Orbitz, Sabre, Concur, Delta Airlines, LiveNation and OpenTable. Prior to that, T.J. was V.P of Operations at IAC/InterActiveCorp, which included over 85 internet brands with 20 million visitors per day. Sites there included Expedia, Hotels.com, Ticketmaster, LendingTree and Match.com. He was also part of Hotwire.com on their startup team back in 2000.

As far as TurnKey Rentals goes, they are one of the largest full-service property management companies in the U.S. It is also one of the fastest growing start-up companies in Austin, Texas and has raised more than $20 million in funding. Original investors include the likes of Expedia, Zillow, Hotwire, Glassdoor, and Homeaway. TurnKey was founded to make the problems and pain points of renting vacation homes go away. Most importantly, they make sure there are no surprises for guests and owners. Aaron had stayed at a property a few weeks before in Palm Springs and had a good experience partly because of the technology and his company.

Bruce and TJ discuss the increase in vacation rentals, regulations being put in place by certain cities on these rentals, the types of properties people prefer to rent, technology's role in rentals, the biggest markets for vacation rentals, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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