01. The Tiny Home Sanctuary
First Airbnb. Purchased for $35,000 with seller carryback financing; transformed, operated for approximately three years and sold for $180,000.
01 / The founder
Real experience.
No invented résumé.
Meet Donna Street: real estate professional, property designer, investor, and hands-on short-term rental operator. Her experience spans creating, running and selling successful income-producing rentals.
Designed, operated, ranked
No borrowed success stories.
This is one of Donna’s own properties—not a stock-photo stand-in. The site is built around firsthand hosting, real design work, and documented investments.
The point of view
A property can be beautiful and make money.
For nearly 36 years, Donna Street has worked as a licensed real estate professional, with experience across property management, design, renovations, staging, and short-term rentals. She creates distinctive, layered spaces—and pays just as much attention to whether the numbers work.
She's done the parts the glossy courses often skip: purchasing, renovating, furnishing, photographing, pricing, marketing, managing, problem-solving, and selling income-producing STR properties.
This site is where that hard-won experience becomes practical comparisons, thoughtful product recommendations, case studies, and courses.
The ranking claims below are Airbnb listing recognitions, not a global design-industry ranking. The rankings relate to specific listings at the times they earned their distinctions.
In Donna's own words
“Make it beautiful. Make it memorable. Make it profitable.”
DONNA STREET ↗
The actual track record
Six listings. Six distinctions.
TOP 1%
Airbnb Top Homes
Urban Cabin
TOP 1%
Airbnb Top Homes
Dark & Moody
TOP 5%
Airbnb Top Homes
The Urban Jungle
TOP 5%
Airbnb Top Homes
The Industrial Cottage
TOP 5%
Airbnb Top Homes
The Tiny Home Sanctuary
TOP 10%
Airbnb Top Homes
The Black Velvet Luxe
The Urban Jungle and The Industrial Cottage were two individual listings within one duplex. Six listings represent five real estate properties.
Bought · Built · Operated · Sold
Experience on both sides of the sale.
Donna sold two income-producing STR real estate properties—the duplex containing The Urban Jungle and The Industrial Cottage, and her original studio, The Tiny Home Sanctuary—at prices she describes as record-setting.
Explore the properties ↗02. The Black Velvet Luxe
Second Airbnb, later recognized in Airbnb's Top 10% of Homes.
03. The duplex
Two distinct Airbnb listings: The Urban Jungle and The Industrial Cottage, each Top 5%. The property was eventually sold.
04. Urban Cabin & Dark & Moody
Two differently styled stays, each earning Airbnb Top 1% recognition.
Why this site exists
Actual answers. Not guru theater.
Software tested in real hosting operations. Design decisions grounded in guest experience. STR education from a creator and operator—not a résumé assembled from other people's listings.