In our previous posts we've covered our motivations and a majority of the Zapier zaps needed to do our automation. In this post, we setup our custom Smart Things smart app manage our lock codes and our final Zap to call it. The smart things…
In the previous post, we covered our motivations for automating, and the high-level of what we want. This post will detail how to do it. The first step is to setup the zap that will receive our forwarded reservation email. It uses the Email Parser…
I've just finished my first summer of running a rental on VRBO. As the season comes to an end, I've been looking at optimizing my processes for next year. For every reservation, I am doing the following: This process has a few issues: In theory, it…
There are some great looking wooden birdhouses, but after just a year or two, they start to rot and fall apart. Even when cleaned out each fall and stored indoors each winter. Wood just isn't very durable, and birdhouses get abused inside and out. Doing…