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    The Nine-Hour Gap Between Landing and Check-In — and Why I’m Building Karri to Close It

    September 9, 2026

    You’ve probably done this. You land at the airport at seven in the morning, on the good flight, the one that gets you into the city with a full day still ahead of you. Except your Airbnb isn’t ready until four in the afternoon. So now what? 1. The four ways travelers currently handle it Book an extra night, just to guarantee an early check-in. This works. It’s also the most expensive way to close a nine-hour gap — a full night’s rate, mostly unused, just to buy certainty.   Find a luggage storage service nearby. A reasonable middle ground,…

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    The Insight No PMS SaaS Has: Cleaners Don’t Use Apps

    August 6, 2026

    In the last article, I wrote about why I stopped shopping for a PMS and started building my own. The short version: every platform I tried was built by people who’ve never actually run a property. Vendor coordination is where that gap shows up the clearest, so it’s the first place I built for. If you run vacation rentals, mid-term rentals, or furnished housing, you already know: managing the cleaner calendar is one of the hardest parts of the job. I have my horror stories. The next guest is standing at the door, and the room inside is a mess…

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    I Tried Many PMS on the Market. Here’s Why I Built My Own Instead.

    July 23, 2026

    Somewhere along the way, streamlining COZi’s operations became one of my favorite parts of running it. Finding every friction point an operator hits — a cleaner who no-shows, a guest who checks in early, a payment that doesn’t reconcile — and quietly building a backup or a remedy for each one, until the whole thing runs without needing to lean on me constantly. That’s a genuinely satisfying kind of problem-solving, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But there’s a number every operator eventually hits where “I’ll just keep improving my own system” stops being the obvious answer, and “maybe…

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  • The Nine-Hour Gap Between Landing and Check-In — and Why I’m Building Karri to Close It
  • The Insight No PMS SaaS Has: Cleaners Don’t Use Apps
  • I Tried Many PMS on the Market. Here’s Why I Built My Own Instead.
  • Early Startup Sales Mistakes I Had to Learn the Hard Way
  • Before You Quit Your Corporate Job: The Myths No One Talks About When Becoming an Entrepreneur
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