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hey what's up okay so we've stayed in a lot of accommodations especially when
filming Uncharted but I have to say that this accommodation Yari's place here in
Riverside incredible this is an amazing place I love it I wish that all of my
locations in the future look like this just being around here I already feel
like enough for this filming I want to just relax
we're here in Jarrah's place this is the owner Jeremy so how long have you guys been
in business for four years we've been in Lesleyville for two and a half or we're
actually in Riverside so we've been in Riverside for two and a half we've
never been in Lesleyville but maybe maybe we will who knows what inspired so
much questions what inspired you to start doing the bed and breakfast I
remember you said that you started with your cleaning company and then you
started doing organized business no professional organizer so what led up
like tell me what led up to it was almost situational actually I took in
international students right I had a house in Riverdale that it was renting
and I was doing professional organizing so taking in students learning English
in Toronto and it was it was nice except you cook for them breakfast lunch and
dinner they become like a parent which you know I'm pretty good at but it was
pretty high maintenance it got paid very low right and then Airbnb actually came
in and we tried it so I put our first room on Airbnb and I was like wow you make
them breakfast they take care of themselves you don't have any mother
that's gonna call to make sure they're not eating hello not eating not drinking
not you know so it was it was made it perfect it was a great revenue and I
got to deal work with people so I just thought I'd try it so every student I
lost I got a new room for the B&B and then we had you know strawberry pancake
which which I'm gonna get into right now since what what inspired the names of
the rooms so to be honest I'm this is not me this is my marketing partner okay
so I started with different names I started with the colors that I have
right and I started with the order that I have right but when he came in he
started looking at and saying he actually showed me brands he showed me
things that are branded okay and things that have a theme right and then he
showed me what he thinks Jerry's place should be and it was a spectacular we
look like a boutique hotel wow yeah you do actually yes I mean and as I said
before I stayed in in many air B&B's and I mean this place is incredible it's
like it's like a five-star bed and breakfast which they should create a
category for this place would be number five because it looks it looks just like
a hotel it does so explain your creative process in designing the rooms
themselves so I have actually lived in every room because I'd started with
students and they would take over a room in the house I would then move to
another room and I would design it the way I'd like so actually every room has
kind of has always I mean not in this house but every room in the other house
was my room at one point okay so I would take a color that I thought would do
it really well and I would expand from there so kind of play around with
different furniture pieces and stuff until I got the right design awesome so I
know that you've won some awards so how did that come about honestly I think
that I don't know how we do so well but people seem to enjoy us and we I mean
just put my heart and soul into the business and it kind of comes back to
us I love dealing with guests I love hosting people I love sharing with
people stuff what stuff what's available in Lesleyville or Riverside so I think
people really enjoy that personal connection and then they review us right
so so tell me the awards so we have been on TripAdvisor we've been the top 10
on TripAdvisor for almost our four years in business so that's cool we've been
in the top 10 two years in a row and this year we got written up in Lonely
Planet huge I didn't even know the person came through and then a guest is
like we found you in Lonely Planet and showed me because that's really cool so
our marketing guy reached out Lonely Planet and they let us put a seal of
approval on our website which that was fantastic so what makes it I mean you
already kind of answered this question all right but if there's anything else
that you could think of what makes this bed and breakfast so unique and different
from the other ones I think that the personal touch I think people are not
used to that so I've been told before it's like staying at a friend yeah they
truly feel like that's and I'm not the only host right which is I think it's
interesting because I employ other hosts when I go away and we still get the same
rapport so there's something we do as a company it's to always extend ourselves
as much as we can to make sure the guests is super happy with their stay so
even if we get someone that's maybe not as happy as a human being we do our best
still to support them right and I could testify to that because since I've been
here I've had pancakes with maple syrup and and this coffee and I almost don't
want to go home right now you know I feel that like I'm gonna have to stop with
the industry now because if I stay here any longer I'm gonna be crashing here
so I'm not but what time anytime at all but there's a catch but there's a catch
with this because if I stay I'm gonna have to pay you stay you pay that's the
way we that's the way we roll here at Jerry's place but it's all but no
honestly I really love this place and I could really stay here and talk with you
like forever but I know you got some guests that are gonna be coming back
very soon so they're gonna probably wonder why is this camera still on here
and they're probably gonna want to go to sleep so with that thank you so much for
having us thank you for the breakfast and the coffee and letting us shoot the
room absolutely thank you and I really look forward to working with you down
the road for sure absolutely
