A person at the property
Guests are met on arrival by people based in the country — not a call script in another time zone.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FOR OWNERS LIVING ABROAD
You own property in the Czech Republic. You don't have to be here to run it.
IOA Stay is a Czech-based team that looks after the guests, the cleaning, the maintenance and the inspections — and reports to you in English. The daily work happens here; the property and the decisions stay yours.
THE DISTANCE PROBLEM
Running a Czech property
from abroad.
The property doesn't change when you move away. What changes is you.
Guests still write, cleaning still needs checking, and things still break — usually when nobody local is around to see it.
The repair that needs a Czech tradesperson on the phone. The cleaner who needs a key. The guest arriving at midnight. From another country, often another time zone, these are the things that don't wait for your morning. And Czech paperwork doesn't switch languages just because the owner did.
None of it is dramatic; it is small, local and constant. Which is why it needs someone here.
WHAT LOCAL PRESENCE MEANS
What "local"
actually means here.
Being local isn't a slogan; it decides who can act when something happens.
Repairs arranged in Czech
Tradespeople are coordinated, and the work is checked before the next arrival.
Cleaning with a check
Cleaning follows a fixed standard and is checked after every clean.
Inspections in person
The condition of the interior and the equipment is seen in person, regularly, so problems are found before a review mentions them.
One accountable team
Guests, cleaning, maintenance and reporting sit with one team, so nothing falls between separate providers and every question has one place to go.
Why it matters: each of these jobs is easy when someone is nearby, and hard when they aren't.
DELEGATION
What stops
being your job.
You shouldn't need to coordinate every turnover — keys, cleaning, linen — from another time zone. You shouldn't need to find a plumber in a language you don't speak, or spend your own holiday arranging one. You shouldn't need to fly in because something routine needs a decision on the spot. And you shouldn't have to piece together what happened in your property from a guest's review three weeks later.
That work doesn't disappear when you live abroad; it moves to whoever is standing in the country.
LOCAL EXECUTION VS. OWNER DECISIONS
What we run,
what you decide.
Management has two sides, and distance doesn't blur the line between them.
The execution is ours.
Guests are hosted, cleaning is run and checked, maintenance is arranged in Czech, inspections happen in person, and the situations nobody can plan for are dealt with on the spot.
The decisions are yours.
The direction of the cooperation, the house rules, anything that affects the property long-term. You follow it all through regular reporting in English — revenue, bookings, occupancy and costs, each with its context — and the decisions that matter are discussed with you, not made over your head.
You stay informed without running any of it.
HOW IT WORKS FROM ABROAD
Starting from
another country.
The first conversation
You describe the property — where it is, what type it is, how it’s used today — by email or phone, and get back a first professional view of its potential and a proposed way of managing it. No commitment on either side.
Property and access
If you decide to proceed, the groundwork happens here: the condition of the property is documented, access is agreed, and anything that needs adjusting is approved by you in advance and carried out in stages, so you always know what’s happening.
The model, agreed up front
Short-term rental, a longer-term setup or a combination — chosen against the property and what you want from it, and confirmed with you before anything starts.
Local operation, reporting to you
From there, the team runs everything on the ground and reports in English: what happened, what it cost, how the property is doing. The routine doesn’t need your presence; the decisions don’t happen without you.
WHICH MANAGEMENT FITS
The situation is yours;
the model follows it.
Owners abroad end up in different setups, and the right one depends on the property and on what you want from it.
If the apartment rents to short-term guests, the full operation behind a listing is described on the Airbnb management page. If you want one partner for the whole property — maintenance, inspections, documentation, reporting — start with property management. And if the property already runs but the numbers could be better, that's a question of revenue management.
Whichever way the property is run, the same local team is physically here.
WHO RUNS IT
A real company, in the country
where your property is.
IOA Stay is run by Alexandr Ioanidis and Gabriela Ioanidu, operating under INVERSION s.r.o., a Czech company.
Judging a management partner from another country is hard, so the setup is deliberately verifiable: named people instead of an anonymous desk, one accountable team instead of a chain of providers, and reporting you can compare with the actual state of the property.
If you are weighing whether to keep coordinating the apartment yourself, the practical side of that decision — access, maintenance, cleaning, the local admin — is set out in our guide to managing a Prague apartment from abroad.
FAQ
Questions owners living abroad ask.
Yes — it’s one of the most common situations we handle. Everything on the ground is done by the local team, and reporting reaches you in English. The distance changes where the work gets done, not how completely.
The first conversation happens by email or phone. Preparing the property — documenting its condition, arranging access, agreeing any adjustments — is carried out here, in stages you approve in advance. You don’t need to be in the country for the process to start.
You receive regular reporting in English and a clear picture of the property’s condition, and decisions that matter are discussed with you. You don’t have to monitor the daily operation to know where you stand.
The local team — the same people who meet your guests. Repairs, cleaning, keys and access sit with one accountable team, so there is one place to ask and one place that acts.
Yes. Presentation, pricing and channels are reviewed against how the listing actually performs, and what works stays. What a full takeover covers is described on the Airbnb management page.
Then preparation comes first — agreed with you in advance and carried out here, so the first guest arrives to a property that’s ready. How a property is prepared is part of the Airbnb management page above.
That depends on your personal situation, so this page doesn’t give tax or legal advice. The property’s operation and its local paperwork are handled here in Czech; for tax and legal obligations, a Czech adviser is the right person to talk to.
YOUR PROPERTY, MANAGED FROM HERE
Tell us about
your property.
Where it is, what type it is, how it's used today. That's enough for a first professional view of its potential and what management would look like — in English, without commitment on either side. The conversation starts with a message, not a flight.
Your message goes to the people who run IOA Stay.
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