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Community Rules (read before posting)
A few ground rules to keep this room valuable for everyone: 1) Be useful or be quiet. Share wins, ask real questions, give real answers. No drive-by self-promo. 2) Keep it local and on-topic. Short-term and mid-term rentals in the Red River Valley. General real estate chatter belongs elsewhere. 3) No poaching, no spamming. Do not DM members to sell services or recruit them. Cleaners, photographers, and vendors can be recommended in threads, not blasted. 4) Real names, real listings. This is a trust-based room. No anonymous accounts. 5) Attack ideas, not people. Pricing opinions get heated. Disagree on the idea, keep it respectful, never make it personal. 6) What's shared here stays here. Revenue numbers and screenshots are shared in confidence. Do not repost outside the group. Break these and you'll get one heads-up, then removed. Keep them and you'll get a lot out of this room.
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Title: Start Here: read this first (2 minutes)
Welcome to the FM Host Collective. Glad you are here! - This room exists for one reason: to help Fargo-Moorhead hosts run better short-term rentals and keep more of what we earn. I have managed dozens of listings across the metro and I am tired of watching good local hosts leave money on the table on things that are fixable. There is also room for me to grow as well and learning from each other is how we will all elevate! Here is how to get the most out of this group: 1) Introduce yourself. Drop a post in the feed: who you are, where your listing(s) are, how many doors, and the one thing you are trying to figure out right now. We will point you in the right direction. 2) Browse the categories. Pricing, Operations, Local Intel, and more. Search before you ask; odds are someone already covered it. 3) Post your wins. Booked out a slow week? Bumped your nightly rate and it stuck? Put it in Wins. It motivates everyone and helps the whole room calibrate what good looks like. 4) Show up to the monthly meetup. Same time every month (see the Calendar). One member gets a live hot seat on a real problem, I teach one topic, and we open the floor. Recordings land in the Classroom. 5) Earn your way to the good stuff. As you post and engage, you level up and unlock templates, SOPs, and tools we use to run listings (check the Classroom to see what unlocks at each level). That is it. Jump in. The hosts who get the most out of this are the ones who post. See you in the feed. Jory
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What is your single biggest STR headache right now?
Simple one to get us going. Drop your biggest current short-term rental headache below in one line. Pricing, cleaning, a listing that will not book, a problem guest, whatever it is. I will answer every single one this week, and odds are someone else in here has already solved yours. Go!
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Taking a unit from $0 in revenue to $3,107 in revenue in one month!
Want to kick off the Wins category with a real one from a unit I manage. In April 2026 this 2BR in Moorhead was sitting at $0 in revenue and what actively trying to get nurse leads for the MTR model. The owner was ready to give up on it. Here is what we changed: - Switched to the STR Model - Reshot the photos - Removed a queen bed and added a second king bed One month after talking it over, the numbers went to over $3k. Same property, same furniture (outside of new bed), same layout. Different Model. None of this was complicated. It was just the basics done with intent. Post your own wins here, big or small. Booked out a dead week? Bumped a rate that stuck? Got a 5-star review you are proud of? Drop it.
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STR rules in the metro: Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead are NOT the same right now
This trips up a lot of local hosts, so here is the current lay of the land. Three cities, three different rule sets, and one of them just changed. Fargo: Relatively hands-off. As of now, the city does not require a specific STR license or permit. You operate under general residential and property codes. That can change as the market grows, so confirm with the city before you assume. West Fargo: This is the big one. The city passed a short-term rental ordinance in late 2025 that now requires STR properties to be licensed annually. The good news for investors: it does NOT require the property to be your primary residence, so LLC-owned and non-owner-occupied STRs are still allowed. The license needs proof of ownership and proof of liability insurance. It is not transferable, so a new owner means a new license. Moorhead: Different state entirely (Minnesota), but they recognize Short term rentals just like any other rental. The requirement is to register with the city and then conduct yearly inspections. This is the fast-moving stuff, so always confirm current requirements with the city itself, not a Facebook thread (this one included). I am not a lawyer or tax pro, just a host who watches this closely. If you are operating across city lines, know that the rules flip when you cross them. Operating in one of these cities and have a detail to add or correct? Drop it below. Let us keep this thread current for the whole room.
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