Pine and BrassReal estate · Land and rentals

Short-term rental hosting

The turn, done properly.

Host operations tools: welcome books, turnover systems, and trackers for short-term rental hosts. This is the STR wing of Pine and Brass, built for the houses at the other end of the deed, the ones rented by the night instead of held by the acre.

The standard here is the one we hold our land tools to. Every check written down, every timing worked out before the day it is needed, nothing carried in somebody’s head. A turnover that runs on a card beats a turnover that runs on memory, at every property, with every cleaner.

First product live: the Host Operations Bundle, below. Checkout runs through Stripe.

The turnover system

Four hours between guests, on one card.

The card is the system in miniature: the window, the order of work, and the boxes a cleaner can run without a phone call. The finished card is set for each property. This specimen shows the shape of it.

A made bed in a warm, dark walled boutique hotel room with framed line art above the headboard
A host’s house, set for the next arrival
Pine and Brass Turnover Card
The Fernhouse
Whole house · Sleeps 6 · 2 bath
Guest Out
11:00 AM
Guest In
3:00 PM
Window
4 HRS
  • Strip beds, laundry on0:10
  • Baths scrubbed, glass polished0:35
  • Kitchen reset, coffee staged0:20
  • Linen swap, beds made0:25
  • Restock paper, soap, salt0:10
  • Inspect and photograph0:15
  • Welcome book on the table0:02
Housekeeping copy Specimen · No. 001

One turn, five moves

SAME DAY · OUT BY ELEVEN, IN BY THREE
1
Guest Out
11:00 AM
Keys in, windows open, first walk-through.
2
Clean
11:20 AM
Laundry first, then baths, then floors.
3
Inspect
1:00 PM
Eyes on every room, photos to prove it.
4
Restock
1:40 PM
Linen, coffee, paper, and the small things.
5
Guest In
3:00 PM
Book on the table, house quiet, lights low.

Inside the bundle

Three things, made well.

1

Welcome Books

The guest book as a piece of print: house notes, local picks, and the rules that matter, set per property.

In the bundle
2

Turnover Systems

The card, the checklist, and the timing, built around the four hours between one guest and the next.

In the bundle
3

Trackers

Linen, supplies, cleans, and costs, kept the way a front desk keeps its register: in one place, in order.

In the bundle

The first product · October 2026

One bundle, the whole turn.

The three workshop lines ship together as one product, because a stay uses all three on the same day. The calculators and tools on this site answer the math. This bundle is the paper that runs the house: set your property facts once, in the brackets, and the book, the signs, and the messages agree with each other from then on.

STR Host Tools

STR Host Bundle, with Ski Skin

A generic host operations bundle for any short term rental, with a ski skin inside for houses that serve a mountain. Fill in, print, and run it.

  • Welcome Book Template · 19 pages: welcome, arrival and access, house rules, kitchen and living notes, local guide, checkout, emergencies, plus a three page ski insert.
  • House Signs Set · 10 signs, one per page: wifi, checkout, quiet hours, bathroom and laundry basics, kitchen reset, plus boot room, hot tub, ski storage, and altitude signs.
  • Turnover and Cleaning System · 7 pages: the five move turn, room by room checklists, laundry flow, and the inspection pass, with a restock tracker spreadsheet (20 rows, XLSX and CSV).
  • Guest Message Templates · 6 messages from booking confirmation to review request, each with its send time, plus ski variants for weather and road conditions.

$31.00  $14.99 launch price · Digital download, US Letter PDFs plus spreadsheet

Buy the STR Host Bundle, $14.99

Secure checkout through Stripe. Digital download, delivered after checkout.

The flagship

The welcome book, set like it matters.

Guests judge the house by what is on the table when they walk in. The book is set like hotel collateral, property by property, in the same type and the same care as the stay itself.

A bedside table with a globe lamp and a made bed with white pillows
The Fernhouse, at rest. Page 04 · Arrive

House Notes

A few things about the house

  • CoffeeThe beans are in the blue tin. The good cups are on the second shelf.
  • Quiet HoursQuiet after ten, please. The walls are old and friendly, and they carry.
  • The Back DoorIt sticks in wet weather. Lift first, then pull, and it gives.
  • CheckoutEleven o’clock. Leave the keys on this book, and travel well.
Page 05 · House Notes

Specimen spread · The finished book is set for each property

One standard, both ends of the deed.

Land made us particular about paper that has to be right. Hosting asks the same of a different stack of paper. The STR Host Bundle above is the first of this line, listed on this page, priced plainly, and held to the same checked-every-time standard as the Toolkit and the Calendar. More host tools join it here as they are finished.

Interior photography via Pexels, under the Pexels License: photo 164595 (the room above) and photo 279805 (the specimen spread).