Jonathan Poland

I've had my chicken coop for more than 2 years now. For the most part, it has been working great. I can easily leave the chickens for a week, no matter the season, and not worry. In this post, I'll detail some of the things…

With my second year of rentals complete, I've started to look at improvements. There are a few pain points I set out to solve: I decided to drop the spreadsheet and use Wave instead. Wave is a free online accounting software. It's meant for running a…

Five years ago I drastically changed my life. I did something none of my friends had done. Something unorthodox. Something that I had never planned for: I became a stay-at-home dad. Our nanny came rushing in behind me carrying my nine-month-old daughter in her arms.

In our prior post, we covered using Twilio for our vacation rental. It gives us a great combination of low cost and programmability. In this post, we're going to extend the use of our Twilio number to automatically text guests when they first unlock the door.