Consulting from someone who is still running the properties
Geo Pedro operates roughly 30 short-term rentals across about 5 markets. The advice you get is whatever he is doing on his own doors this month, applied to yours, with the reasoning shown. No framework from a portfolio he exited five years ago.
Ops Audit
Two weeks. One intake call, the audit itself, then a working session on the findings.
- 3 to 15 doors, revenue coming in, no operating infrastructure under it.
- Delivered by the operator, not an associate
- Scope and price in writing before anything is charged
What the audit produces
Platform revenue is the only number anyone hands you, and it says nothing about whether door 14 earns. The audit starts by replacing it with net margin per door, because that single reordering usually moves two or three properties from the top of the list to the bottom.
You can get to that ranking with a spreadsheet of payouts minus every real cost, and plenty of operators do. MagicBNB’s Listings table gets there faster: every door sorted by net revenue, occupancy, profit and profit margin, with the occupancy pill coloured against an 80% and a 60% threshold. Either route gives the audit its starting order, and the reason the engagement insists on one of them is that arguing about which door is worst is a waste of a working session.
- Every door ranked by net margin, not by revenue, from payouts matched against costs rather than from platform statements
- The three doors losing the most money named, with the specific cost line doing it
- Your cleaning fee, nightly rate and minimum stay checked against what the market actually books at
- A written fix list in priority order, each item with the money it is worth and the hours it takes
- Your chart of accounts and expense categories rebuilt so next month reconciles without a weekend
- A recorded working session on the findings, yours to keep
- No ongoing management. The audit ends and you own the fix list.
- No listing photography, copywriting or guest messaging rewrite.
- No legal, tax or accounting advice. Where an answer needs a professional, you get told that.
Stated up front because a buyer at this price asks, and a vague answer halfway through an engagement is how both sides end up unhappy.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Three of the six boxes below are a no. They are here because a disqualification you can read in ten seconds is worth more to you than a discovery call, and because selling an audit to someone it cannot help is how a practice with five client slots wastes one.
3 to 15 doors and no operating layer
Revenue is arriving, the calendar mostly fills, and nobody can tell you which doors earn. This is the band the audit was built for.
15 to 50 doors where a margin problem is expensive
At thirty doors, two points of margin is real money every month and a wrong cleaning rate compounds across the whole portfolio. The work pays for itself fastest here.
You are adding doors and the operation keeps breaking
Every new property costs more attention than the last one and the month-end close gets worse each time. That is a structure problem, and structure is what gets diagnosed.
You have not bought anything yet
There is nothing to audit. Underwrite the deal with the free calculators instead, and come back when there are payouts to reconcile.
One or two doors
At two doors the whole picture fits on one spreadsheet tab and an audit cannot pay for itself. $1,500 is better spent on photography.
You want someone to run it for you
This is diagnosis and a fix list, and you do the fixing. Co-hosting and full management are a different business and this is not it.
The engagements
One is open. The other two are named here because a thirty-door operator reading this wants to know whether there is anywhere to go after the audit, and they carry no price because they do not have one yet. Scope and pricing on the open engagement are provisional and being finalised.
Ops Audit
A per-door margin picture built from reconciled payouts and real costs, and a ranked list of what to change first.
3 to 15 doors, revenue coming in, no operating infrastructure under it. Two weeks. One intake call, the audit itself, then a working session on the findings.
Monthly Advisory
A standing monthly review of the numbers with the person who runs a portfolio the same size.
15 to 50 doors, where a margin problem costs four figures a month. Monthly cadence. Scope and price are being set under D8.
Mention it on the intake form and you will be told when it opens. Nothing to pay and nothing to decide in the meantime.
Operator Build-Out
The reporting, the cost structure and the owner-facing numbers built and handed over running.
Operators who want the whole operating layer built rather than diagnosed. Multi-month build. Scope and price are being set under D8.
Mention it on the intake form and you will be told when it opens. Nothing to pay and nothing to decide in the meantime.
Why the cap is 5 and not a bigger number
An Ops Audit takes six to ten hours of the same person who is running 30 doors. At 5 active clients that is the whole of his available week, and past it the properties start paying for the consulting. So the cap is an operating constraint rather than a marketing device, which is also why there is no countdown on this page.
How the engagement runs
Five steps, and the first three cost you nothing. There is no discovery call before the yes, because a call is thirty minutes of your week spent establishing something a form answers in ninety seconds.
You send the form
Doors, markets, PMS and the thing that is actually hurting. No call needed to find out whether this is worth your time.
Geo reads it and answers yes or no
A no comes with the reason. Under three doors or pre-purchase, an audit cannot pay for itself yet and you get told so rather than sold to.
A yes comes with a scope, a price and a date
Written down before any money moves. If the scope is wrong, that is the moment to say so.
Your portfolio goes into MagicBNB
A condition of the engagement rather than an upsell, and the reason is arithmetic. MagicBNB's Bank account integration links the checking, savings, business and merchant accounts the money actually moves through, and each deposit gets matched against the payout records pulled from your PMS. An audit built on estimates inherits every estimate's error, and a deposit either cleared or it did not.
The audit, then the working session
You get the ranked per-door picture and the fix list, then a call to argue with it. The recording is yours.
What is still true a year later
The fix list is the smaller half of it. The larger half is that your expense categories, your property splits and your recurring costs end the engagement set up correctly, so next month closes without anybody rebuilding the picture from scratch. An audit you have to re-buy every quarter was a bad audit.
That matters most for owner reporting, which is the single largest recurring time cost in a portfolio of this size. MagicBNB’s Monthly Portfolio Report Builder exports the same statement to PDF for an owner and Excel for an accountant from saved templates, so the pack you leave the engagement with is one you regenerate each month instead of rebuilding.
If you would rather keep the spreadsheet, keep it. The categories and the splits are the part worth having and they transfer anywhere.
What is not on this page
No testimonials. No case studies. No screenshot of a client’s revenue going up and to the right. The consulting practice is new and there are no delivered engagements to quote, so quoting one would mean inventing it.
You read enough of these to know what a manufactured testimonial looks like. Writing one here would cost more than the gap it fills, and it would be the first thing you found out was false.
What is published instead is checkable before any money moves: the exact deliverable list, the exclusions, the price, the capacity cap, and a portfolio of roughly 30 properties across about 5 markets that the person doing the work still runs. If that is not enough proof for $1,500, that is a reasonable position. The free training and the blog are where to judge the thinking at no cost first.
Tell him what is actually wrong
Five answers and an email. Doors, markets, PMS and the problem is enough to tell whether an audit would pay for itself on your portfolio, which is the only question worth settling first.
- A no is a real answer and it comes with the reason
- Scope and price in writing before anything is charged
- Capped at 5 active clients, so the reply is honest about timing
The portfolio runs on MagicBNB for the engagement, at $20 a month for the first 3 listings and $7 a month per listing after that. The 14-day trial needs a card. Full pricing.
Questions operators ask before paying for this
What is a short-term rental Ops Audit?
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An Ops Audit is a two-week paid engagement that ranks every property in a short-term rental portfolio by net profit margin, built from bank deposits matched against payout records rather than from platform revenue statements, and returns a written fix list in priority order. MagicBNB sells it at $1,500 as a one-time engagement and it is delivered by Geo Pedro, who operates roughly 30 properties across about 5 markets.
Who delivers the work?
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Geo Pedro, STR operator and co-founder, Daystays Hospitality. He runs roughly 30 short-term rental properties across about 5 markets and the consulting work is delivered personally rather than by an associate or a junior analyst. The capacity cap of 5 active clients exists because of that.
How many clients do you take?
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A maximum of 5 active clients at a time, and 3 is the number the practice is built around. An Ops Audit takes six to ten hours of direct operator time, which is the binding constraint. Nothing is sold without a delivery slot behind it.
Are there client testimonials or case studies?
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No. The consulting practice is new and there are no delivered client engagements to quote, so this page publishes none rather than reaching for something generic. What is published instead is the exact deliverable list, the exclusions, the price and the capacity cap, all of which can be checked before any money moves.
Do I have to buy the software too?
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The portfolio is connected to MagicBNB for the engagement, because the audit runs on reconciled bank and PMS data rather than on estimates. MagicBNB is $20 a month covering the first 3 listings and $7 a month for each listing after that, with a 14-day free trial that requires a card. There is no free tier.
What does it not cover?
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It does not cover ongoing property management, co-hosting, guest communication, listing photography or copywriting, and it is not legal, tax or accounting advice. Where an answer needs a licensed professional, you get told that instead of an opinion.
What happens after I send the intake form?
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Geo Pedro reads the form and replies with either a written scope, a price and a start date, or a straight no with the reason. Nothing is charged and nothing is scheduled before the scope is agreed in writing.
Is this the same thing as the free training?
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No. The training and the operator community are free and open to anyone, and this is a paid private engagement on your own portfolio with a capacity cap on it. The free material teaches the method; the audit applies it to your numbers and tells you which door to fix first.
Not ready to pay for anything? The free calculators need no account, and the weekly email costs nothing either.