Jessica was close to selling her Nashville Airbnb. Now it runs without her

A whim, and a city that kept growing

Jessica has lived in Nashville almost her whole life. She works full-time in healthcare, in a job with a good bit of travel. Her husband works in sales, and together they own two CrossFit gyms. They also have two daughters.

The rental started on a whim, as an idea for another investment. Nashville kept growing, with pro soccer at GEODIS Park, a new Nissan Stadium on the way and a steady stream of weekend visitors. They wanted something long-term with some passive income. It felt steadier than the stock market, and it would give visiting family a place to stay.

Bought turnkey, run by their realtor

The townhome came to them already running as a short-term rental, with permits in place and fully furnished. The seller was an active-duty service member being deployed. He wanted to sell to someone local instead of a company buying up rentals, and Jessica liked that.

The plan was for her to stay hands-off. Their realtor, who runs an Airbnb of his own, would manage the house, and her travel schedule was lighter back then. "I was just property owner," she says.

When nobody could get to the house

It started well, and she's quick to say it wasn't a lack of effort. Both of their lives just got busier. Her travel "started going like crazy," and their realtor took on more construction work.

"We were just running into a lot of roadblocks," she says. "Somebody needs to be there for XYZ, and we're both out of town. What now?"

Jessica kept getting pulled back in. One time she showed up to find all of the kitchen table chairs up on the rooftop deck, after a rain. "So I was really not happy," she says.

Close to selling

"Before Venturebnb, I was stressed out," Jessica says. "It was too consuming for everything else going on in life."

Their realtor needed to hand the house off too, so they parted on good terms. By then the family was weighing a sale. "We were at the point where we were considering selling," she says. "It had just become too much for us to really take on."

A search, and a gut check

Jessica searched her email for management companies and asked her HOA group who other owners liked. Michael, Venturebnb's Nashville specialist, had emailed her a couple of times. She looked the company up to make sure it was real, then wrote back: "Hey, are y'all still interested?"

She talked to a few companies and went with her gut. The question she asked herself was simple: "Do I feel like they care about this the same way that I would?"

Boundaries from the first meeting

Jessica was upfront with Michael: she didn't want to be involved. He told her some owners like to be part of every step, and she said no. "I don't have the bandwidth," she told him, and he was fine with that.

They agreed on what the team would bring to her. Everything else shows up in her owner reports and the app, where she can check reservations whenever she wants. "I have had zero issues whatsoever of getting a hold of anybody to get any answers I need," she says.

Having a local team mattered as much as the boundaries. Michael lives in Nashville, and the handyman and maintenance crews were already in place. "If it was just going to be me," she says, "I don't know, who am I going to call?"

One message, then nothing

When the rooftop patio furniture wore out, Michael was the one who caught it. Jessica picked out a new set and sent him the delivery window. "And then I did nothing else," she says.

The team hauled the old set away, carried the boxes upstairs and put the new pieces together. She got a photo once it was all set up. Her reply: "Sweet. Looks great."

Out of her head

The biggest change isn't a task off her list. The rental no longer takes up room in her head. "There's no stress about, oh, is stuff being taken care of, or even just a simple fact of, is it getting booked?" she says. "That might sound weird to some people, but for me, beautiful. That's what I need."

The numbers held up too. From October 2025 to August 2026, its first 10½ months with Venturebnb, the townhome earned $54,211 at 68% occupancy, with a 4.9-star rating across 62 guest reviews.

What surprised her

Even with the boundaries set, Jessica wondered how much she'd still end up doing. "That just never happened," she says. "This is exactly what I asked for."

A busy Nashville rental still has its share of dinged walls and handyman calls. Having been close to the house before, those don't faze her. The difference is that she doesn't have to be the one who handles them.

Where it stands now

Jessica still owns the townhome, and Nashville is still booming. The one thing she'd rethink about the purchase has nothing to do with management: the bet on interest rates coming down. "All in all, I can't say that it was a bad decision," she says.

Her advice is for owners in the spot she was in. Venturebnb fits people "who have a ton going on and need to just be able to hand something over and say, 'Hey, take it on, and good luck.'" She recorded that advice on video in October 2026, and you can watch it above.