Be Nice Hospitality Group

Co-living · Run by Della Henry

Co-living,
run like a business.

I run twelve co-living and mid-term units across five Southeast cities. Everything I know about renting by the room lives on this page.

The calculators, the checklists, the course, and the answers I wish somebody had handed me in year one. Start with the free property score. It takes about ten minutes and tells you whether your property is worth converting before you spend a dollar on it.

No sales theater. Calls are working sessions.

Della Henry, co-living and mid-term rental operator, co-founder of Be Nice Hospitality Group

12

Units in active operation

5

Southeast cities

8

Years running co-living and MTR

92%

Trailing 12-month occupancy

Start here

What co-living actually is.

If you came here from one of my lives, this is the part I never explain on camera. Co-living is not a hack and it is not a new idea. It is a rooming house with better systems and a better class of tenant. Three things make it work.

You rent the room, not the house

One property, four to six private rooms, shared kitchen and living space. Each room is its own lease at its own rent. A house that fetches sixteen hundred a month whole can clear well past that by the door, because you are selling a room to somebody who needs one, not a whole house to somebody who does not.

The stay is measured in months, not nights

Thirty days and up. Travel nurses on thirteen-week contracts. Corporate relocations. Insurance displacement placements after a house fire or a flood. These people need somewhere real to live for a season, and they are not price-shopping a hot tub on a Saturday.

The operations are boring, and that is the point

A weekend rental turns fifty-two times a year. A co-living room turns three or four. Fewer turns means fewer cleans, fewer messages, fewer emergencies at eleven at night. That is the whole reason I moved my portfolio here. My weekends came back.

Della’s take

Co-living is not for everybody, and I would rather tell you that here than take your money and let you find out. If your property is in a market with no hospital, no university, and no corporate corridor, the demand is not there. Run the free score below. It will tell you straight.

Free, no catch

The tools I actually use.

These are the same spreadsheets and checklists I run my own portfolio on, rebuilt so they work in a browser. One email unlocks all of them. No drip sequence designed to wear you down.

Start with this one

Co-living Property Calculator

Forty weighted questions across seven sections. Score any property in under ten minutes and get a plain-language fix list for every gap you flag. Built for co-living specifically, not generic short-term rental scoring.

Score Your Property
  • Seven operator sections, forty weighted questions
  • A score you can act on in ten minutes
  • A fix list written the way I would say it
  • Works before you own a single door

checklist

Room Rental Setup Checklist

Every item a co-living property needs before you list it, grouped by room. Check your way to a launch-ready readiness score.

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Room Rental Price Calculator

Turn a comparable one-bedroom rent plus your property and room features into a defensible per-room monthly price.

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Start-Up Cost Projection Worksheet

Every pre-launch expense a co-living property incurs, by category, so you know how much capital you need before the first guest.

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Co-Living Profit Calculator

A full twelve-month income statement for a co-living property. Enter revenue and expenses, see NOI and net profit roll up live.

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Maintenance Tracker

Log every maintenance issue, what it cost, and how long it took. Spot recurring problems before they become expensive ones.

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Contractor Rolodex

Every plumber, electrician, and cleaner in one place, with ratings, rates, and when you last used them.

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Supply Inventory Tracker

Track consumables and supplies against par levels so you never run out of toilet paper or overspend on overstock.

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Market Demand Worksheet

Evaluate whether a neighborhood can actually support a co-living property, across demographics, housing, demand signals, lifestyle, and competition.

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Target Audience Identification Matrix

The co-living tenant segments, what each one needs, where to reach them, and how to speak to them. A messaging reference you can copy from.

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Guest Correspondence Templates

Warm, professional message templates for every moment of the guest journey, plus 20 ready answers to the questions tenants always ask.

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Course Outline & Progress Checklist

The whole Room Rental Riches path on one page, from research to your first tenant. Check off each milestone and watch your launch progress climb.

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Rental Type Comparison Chart

Short-term, mid-term, and long-term rentals side by side on income, hours, regulation, and startup cost, plus a 5-question quiz to find your fit.

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Photo Shot List

The exact shots a co-living listing needs, room by room, so your photos fill rooms instead of just filling space. Check them off on the shoot.

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Tenant Tracker & Rent Collection Log

One row per tenant for room, dates, rate, deposit, and status, plus a rent log so a late payment is a same-day conversation, not a month-end surprise.

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Room Rental Agreement & House Rules Guide

What belongs in a solid room rental agreement and co-living house rules, clause by clause, so you can build or review yours with confidence.

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The Legal Toolkit Overview

The eight attorney-informed documents every co-living operator should have, what each one does, and when you reach for it. Frameworks to adapt, not legal advice.

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30-Day Social Posting Calendar

Thirty days of post ideas that attract room renters, built on four weekly themes so you stay consistent without staring at a blank calendar.

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Inbound Inquiry Script Bank

Confident, copy-and-send replies for every inquiry you get, from 'is this still available?' to 'that's more than I expected to pay,' so you turn messages into move-ins.

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NiceListing Builder

Answer a few questions about your room and audience and get a platform-ready listing title and a four-part description, built on the framework that fills rooms.

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Revenue Maximization & Upsell Playbook

How to earn more from the rooms you already have: the upsell menu with real margins, loyalty and referral engines, rent-raise timing, and the readiness test for property two.

The course

Room Rental Riches.

The manual I wish I had in year one. Not a framework, not a mindset course. The actual playbook I run every Monday morning, written down. Three ways in depending on how much of it you want me involved in.

Self-paced

$497

Founding price for the first 100 students, then $697.

The whole system, on your couch.

Twelve modules, lifetime access, no cohort schedule breathing down your neck. Property selection through scaling, with the SOPs, templates, and vendor lists I use.

See Self-paced
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Cohort

$2,497

Eight weeks, live, capped at fifteen operators.

The same system, with me in the room.

Everything in self-paced plus eight weeks of live guided work, weekly hot seats where you bring a real situation, direct messaging with me during the cohort, and a year in the network.

See Cohort

Operator

$7,497

Diagnose, build, operationalize.

We build it with you.

For operators who already have doors and want the system installed rather than taught. We diagnose what is leaking, build the fix, and stay until it runs without you.

See Operator

Not sure which one? Compare all three. Most people start self-paced and move up once they have a specific problem.

Every week, live

The five W’s, live.

Once a week I get on camera and walk through what is actually happening in my portfolio. Who is renting, what they are paying, when the demand shows up, where the markets are moving, and why. Bring questions. I answer them live.

The how does not fit in a live session. That is what the tools and the course on this page are for.

Next session

Weekly · 7:00 PM ET

Get a reminder.

One email before each session. Nothing else.

The gear

What I put in every unit.

Locks, linen, mattresses, smart-home gear, and the consumables I replace on every turnover. Nothing aspirational. If it is on the list it is because it is in one of my houses right now and I would buy it again.

Open the Co-living Toolkit
A furnished co-living room set up for a mid-term stay
A Southeast neighborhood at golden hour where co-living demand concentrates

Still have a question

Bring it to a call.

A deal you are underwriting. A room that will not fill. A city ordinance nobody can give you a straight answer on. Thirty minutes with me beats another month of guessing. If I cannot help, I will tell you on the call.