ORLEANS — David and Marilyn Snodgrass hope to sell the Orleans Hotel Bed and Breakfast to the right people.
The Orleans Hotel Bed and Breakfast was built in 1929. Its current owners, David and Marilyn Snodgrass, are planning to sell the business after operating it since 2014.
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David and Marilyn Snodgrass have owned and operated the Orleans Hotel Bed and Breakfast since 2014. They have placed the hotel up for sale.
Located in the middle of the woods in Hendersonville, North Carolina sits this cozy cabin. Despite the pandemic, the owners of this short-term rental say business has been booming.Donna Lyerly: "From July to December, we saw recording bookings."Keith Lyerly: "As things started opening up a little, we found that people needed to get out, they needed to get away. The month of October, we were booked every day, which is not normal." Keith and Donna Lyerly aren't the only hosts seeing a rise in bookings. Short-term rentals outperformed hotels in dozens of markets around the world in 2020, according to industry analysts. Geleen Antonio who's been traveling around the U.S. for months says she prefers to stay in a short-term rental, because of the amount of control it gives her.Antonio: "I do feel safer because I go through all the checklists, making sure they've cleaned everything and have had space in between visitors."But while more and more travelers search for vacation rentals in remote, rural locations, the demand for rentals in big cities especially ones with large numbers of COVID-19 cases has dropped.Christina Zima: "Pre-pandemic, I was managing 25 houses, and now I'm down to 12."The majority of properties Christina Zima manges are located in Silicon Valley an area that turned into something of a ghost town as tech companies transitioned to remote work allowing residents to flee to more affordable places. While her clientele used to be mostly business travelers, Zima's guests now tend to be long-term renters such as locals renovating their homes or students attending college nearby. Over the course of 2020, Zima saw her gross rental income decrease by about 60% compared to 2019. Zima: "Honestly, I don't see it getting better fast. I think it's going to take a while, at least for what we're doing." Zima says she's repeatedly run into issues with guest expectations during the pandemic.Zima: "We get a lot of people also trying to demand that we leave the house empty for three days before they arrive. Then we're just like 'OK, I guess it's not the house for you,' because we can't survive if we have to give three free nights away with every booking. That's not going to work. AirBnB guests aren't willing to pay a deep-clean rate. I mean, deep cleaning would be $450 dollars for a regular house. Nobody's paying that for an AirBnB where they stay maybe a week or something. But they expect it to be cleaned as if it were a deep clean." But the Lyerlys who also run a short-term rental hospitality and cleaning company say they've gotten used to people's differing standards regarding cleanliness. Donna Lyerly: "They're here to party. They are sick of being cooped up in their own home and they're just ready to relax and be on a vacation. And then we've got the people that are pulling the furniture out from the wall and pulling bed linens off to check mattresses."Either way the couple has high hopes for 2021.Donna Lyerly: "If the activity in bookings is any indication, this will be a banner year for us because we've just got a lot more activity." The data backs them up. While half of U.S. hotel rooms are projected to remain empty this year, industry analysts at AirDNA expect short-term rentals to become the primary lodging choice for vacationers as travelers seek more space and privacy.
Nebraska people and places on reality TV
From Tommy Lee at UNL to 'The Voice' and more, see the Nebraska people and places that have been on reality TV.
Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner weighed 264 pounds when he retired from wrestling in 2004. When TV viewers see him Tuesday night on NBC's "The Biggest Loser: Couples," he'll tip the scale at 474 pounds.
As NBC's "The Biggest Loser" nears its conclusion, the departure of former Husker wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner still has me scratching my big, bald head.
Matt Ellis was a senior political science student at UNL when Lee moved in with him in 2004. Soon, the Scottsbluff native and part-time bartender was a co-star in "Tommy Lee Goes to College," which followed the Motley Crue drummer while he and Ellis sampled UNL's social and academic scenes.
The Cat's Pajamas calls its transportation the "Sunshine Van."
Two grandson, one a Lincoln attorney, will be on the History reality show with a letter their grandfather received from Knute Rockne not long before the famous coach died.
After work, Candace Sturgeon flipped on her VCR. More than 11 million people had watched an hour earlier as the past few months of her life played out on ABC’s "Extreme Makeover."
The audition process takes some time, Jen Middlekauff said. They had to send a tape, then their Lincoln real estate agent had to send a tape, too.
Lincoln viewers will have a rooting interest when “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition” kicks off its 12-episode second season Tuesday on Lifetime.
She kept her win on "Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition" a secret for six months.
Diane Ogden’s 30-year stint with the U.S. Post Office ended the same way her appearance on the popular CBS reality show “Survivor” did — sooner than she expected.
Nebraskans will have another rooting interest on “American Ninja Warrior” this summer.
On his 54th day in the Vancouver Island wilderness, one in which whipping, frigid wind confined him to a tarped tent that kept flapping in his face, Sam Larson appeared to reach his breaking point on the final episode of “Alone.”
Voters didn’t make Hannah Huston the winner of “The Voice” Tuesday night, but her coach, singer and record producer Pharrell Williams, said “she already won.”
Fred Thorne had his wife, Maggi, and their three children in Indianapolis to cheer him on during Tuesday night’s episode of NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior,” but it wasn’t enough.
Josh Hoyer can’t say much about being on “The Voice.”
Ondrea and Marquez Fernandez hoped to expand their small "healthy doughnut" business.
The filmmaker wants to know if I want the long version of the story behind her first documentary.
The first time Garrett Elting was asked to appear on History Channel's "Forged in Fire" was a few years ago.
Troy and Brandy Bishop had long dreamed of moving abroad. When a realistic chance arose, taking them to the European nation of Luxembourg, the Bishops looked to fulfill a second dream in the process: Make it onto HGTV's hit show "House Hunters International."
What started as a minor annoyance while stationed in Iraq led to a million-dollar idea for Robert Patton.
PONCA — When Gene Watchorn first began decorating his home for Christmas, the power company would call, asking if there was an electrical problem at his rural residence northwest of Ponca.
