Real Estate
Buy a Short-Term Rental From the People Who Run Them.
Patrick, Zach, and Jack are licensed Arizona real estate brokers — and the operators behind one of Arizona's top-performing vacation-rental portfolios. Most agents can tell you what a home is worth. We can tell you what it will earn.
The Difference
Every Agent Has Comps. We Have the Operating Data.
When you buy a short-term rental, the number that matters isn't the price per square foot — it's what the home earns, night after night, season after season. VacayAZ manages a deliberately small portfolio of luxury homes worth about $160 million across Scottsdale and Sedona, and we price every one of them every single day. That data is how we underwrite a purchase: before you write an offer, we've already modeled the home's nightly rates, seasonality, and occupancy against real homes we operate — not a formula, not a guess.
And because we're brokers as well as operators, there's no handoff between the person who sells you the house and the person responsible for making it perform. Same team, same accountability, from the first showing to the first booking.
Buying
We Help You Buy the Home That Will Actually Make Money.
Define the Buy Box
Budget, target return, market, and home type. Half our managed portfolio is five bedrooms or larger because that's where the strongest returns live — we'll show you why, with real performance data.
Underwrite Before You Offer
For any home on your shortlist we build a revenue estimate from comparable homes we actually operate: projected nightly rates by season, realistic occupancy, and the holiday premiums that make or break an Arizona rental year.
Clear the Landmines
Short-term-rental permits, city rules, and HOA restrictions differ street by street in Scottsdale and Sedona — and they can quietly kill a deal or a rental business. Even homes without an HOA can have deed restrictions most agents don't catch. We check all of it before you commit, because we live under these rules every day.
Close, Then Launch
The day you close, the same team moves your home into design, photography, and listing setup. Most homes we manage take their first booking within days of going live.
See how our property management works →Selling
Sell It as a Business, Not an Empty House.
A short-term rental with documented earnings is worth more than the same house standing empty — but only if it's positioned that way. We package your home's booking history and revenue performance into the story an investor buyer needs to see, market it to people specifically shopping for income properties, and structure the sale so future bookings can transfer with the home. The buyer steps into a running business; you get paid for the one you built.
Never been rented? It can still sell like an income property.
If your home has no booking history — you lived in it, it sat empty, or it was under-managed — we build a revenue projection from data only we have: real nightly rates, occupancy, and seasonality from comparable homes we operate in your neighborhood. Buyers see what the home could earn, backed by an operating portfolio instead of an internet estimate — and a home with credible numbers attached sells to a bigger pool, at a better price, than a house with none.
Years of doing this in Scottsdale and Sedona have taught us exactly what makes an investor say yes — because we're the ones they call to underwrite the deal.
The Brokers
Your Brokers Own the Operating Company.
Patrick Tice, Zachary Zinn, and Jack Walker are licensed Arizona real estate brokers with years of experience helping investors buy the right vacation rental — and position the ones they sell to command the highest price. They also own and run VacayAZ. When they underwrite a home for you, they're applying the same judgment they use on their own portfolio every morning: what to pay, what it earns, what to walk away from.
Patrick Tice
Broker · Founder & CEO
Zach Zinn
Broker · Co-Owner & COO
Jack Walker
Broker · Co-Owner & Chief Property Officer
Where We Work
Two Markets, One Team
We buy, sell, and operate in both markets — real offices, real staff, and current performance data on the streets you're shopping.
Tell Us Your Budget. We'll Tell You What It Can Earn.
A short call with one of us who operates rentals for a living is where to start. Buyers get a revenue-backed read on any home you're considering; sellers get a valuation that counts the business, not just the house. Either way, you leave knowing your real numbers — no pressure, no obligation.