Lily Stork
speaker
1,208 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Lily Stork’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 6.
Appearances
But then she started hearing how some other homeowners were charging thousands of dollars a night for their places.
Her house even has an indoor pool, so in March, she and her husband paid a property manager to list it at $5,500 a night.
That's not the situation Kansas Citians were expecting just a few months ago.
The local tourism bureau Visit KC had projected the World Cup would bring 650,000 visitors, 10 times the number of hotel rooms in the region, says Susan Brown, president of the Kansas City Short-Term Rental Alliance.
So Brown's organization and municipal officials pushed to get more people to offer up their homes for rent.
The city reduced its registration fees for short-term rentals.
Brown's group held training sessions for prospective hosts who wanted to make money from the influx of soccer fans.
As in the supply of Airbnbs and Verbos outpaced demand.
That's held prices down, Brown says, and left a mixed bag for property owners.
Overall, short-term rental bookings are up in the area 47% higher than the same time last year, according to AirDNA, a site that tracks global short-term rental data.
Rates are up, too, 65% compared to last year.
And yet, Jamie Lane, chief economist at AirDNA, says there are still a lot of available places in the region.
Some would-be hosts in Kansas City have thrown in the towel.
Back in 2024, Roxana Chaffee and her husband bought a townhouse.
They wanted to get some short-term hosting experience before renting it out during the World Cup.
Months went by, the place wasn't getting booked, and then some folks who'd just rented it asked if they could buy it.
Chaffee ran the offer by her husband.
They closed in late February for just over $300,000, which was about what Chaffee says they paid for it.
Ultimately, she says, moving on was for the best.
For homeowners still waiting for bookings, there is some time.
Showing 1181–1200 of 1,208 · page 60 of 61
← Previous
Next →