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Disney Disaster to Vacation Visionary: Steve Petasky's Journey
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Ever wondered why vacation rentals can feel like a gamble? The photos look amazing, but will there be decent kitchen knives? Enough toilet paper? Clean linens? Steve Petasky of Luxus Vacation Properties is transforming this unpredictable experience into one of absolute certainty.
Picture a world where vacation rentals deliver the consistency of a luxury hotel with the space and privacy of a private home. That's the vision behind Luxus Vacation Properties, which Petasky describes as "JW Marriott meets Airbnb." What began as a personal solution for his growing family in 2006 has evolved into a company that's serviced over 20,000 vacations and is partnering with iconic brands like Four Seasons.
The magic of Luxus isn't just in selecting beautiful properties—though they certainly do that—but in standardizing the experience across every location. Whether you're staying in their Costa Rica villa or California condo, you'll find the same premium mattress, high-quality linens, fully-stocked kitchen, and reliable amenities. This consistency creates what Petasky calls the most valuable luxury of all: certainty.
Behind this seemingly simple concept lies complex execution challenges, from convincing homeowners to upgrade their properties to navigating the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape of short-term rentals worldwide. Yet properties that meet the Luxus standard consistently outperform the market, often generating an additional $50,000-100,000 in annual revenue.
Perhaps most fascinating is how Petasky's business philosophy was shaped by his childhood experience of being robbed during a family Disney vacation, when another family's unexpected generosity showed him the transformative power of hospitality. Ready to experience vacation rentals reimagined? Visit LuxusGroup.com or follow @LuxusVP on Instagram to discover their portfolio of exceptional homes around the world.
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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! 🎙️ Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! 🏡🌟 #TheBradWeismanShow #RealEstateRealLife
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Good Ready From real estate. The market as a whole, which then sometimes will affect the technology Right, the real life. We all learn in different ways. If you think about it, wayne Dyer might not attract everybody, and everything in between. The mission was really to help people just to reach their full potential.
Speaker 2:The Brad Wiseman Show. And now your host, brad Wiseman.
Speaker 1:All right, we're back. Thanks for joining us every Thursday night at 7 pm. We really do appreciate it. We got a guest here that is actually not in the studio, but it's tough to get everybody in here. You know, hugo, it's really tough to get everybody in here, that's right. Yeah, so this guy here. I've been watching him on social media, checking him out. He's got a really unique company that I thought it'd be great to have him on here, because I like what he's doing. It's something different and his name is Steven Patasky. He is actually from Canada originally. He's now living in San Diego recently and he's our guest tonight. He does luxury vacations and I think there's pretty much nobody out there that doesn't like a good luxury vacation. So let's bring him on Hugo, all right? How are you doing, steven Now? Do you go by Steve or Steven?
Speaker 2:You can call me either, but Steve is just fine.
Speaker 1:Steve is fine. Okay, there we go. Steve's easy, and I didn't even ask you before. It's Petoskey, is that right? You nailed it, I did. Okay, yours is pretty easy. I get some that are not as easy, and then I usually screw them up anyway, so it doesn't really matter. But but thanks for being here today. I really appreciate it and I love what you're doing here with these luxury vacations and how you're doing it, and you're going about it in a different way than pretty much anybody else I've seen.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much for having me. And yes, it's, we've tried to. After doing a similar version, a little different, for about 18 years, we decided to make a big change and try to pick a new niche in the market that no one's doing or very, very, very few doing it and doing it well, and that's trying to build something that I think people will appreciate, which is pretty much just giving people consistency in expectations to be met and through our vacation rental experience. But we'll dive into that, but we're pretty excited about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's cool and you know some of the one of the things that I saw that kind of summed it up for me and you can tell me. It was on either their website or LinkedIn or somewhere. Helping our clients fulfill their vacation dreams is the legacy we sought to create by delivering elevated vacation experiences and access to your portfolio of luxury vacation homes. It's a little bit we talked before the week when we went live and it's like the JW Marriott meets Airbnb, where you're going to get a higher level of experience in, but in a home as opposed to a hotel.
Speaker 2:Nailed it Absolutely so the I think what's been missing within the vacation rental space, which I think anyone could probably attest to, is Airbnb and VRBO make up over 90% of the distribution of the vacation rentals around North America and in different parts of the world, but when you go to one, you're really relying on a host and the level of quality of experience they are choosing to deliver. Obviously, airbnb and VRBO deliver great distribution experience a way for you to vet the homeowner research, understand them. But does the home really look that good? Does the furniture look that good? Is there going to be groceries in the fridge? Is there going to be one roll of toilet paper or 10? Like all these questions you have to ask yourself before you go on vacation. And this is just the way the world is.
Speaker 2:We sought to say well, what if? When you go to a hotel, what do you get? You get a great night's sleep. You know exactly the pillows and the linens. You know what the coffee pot's going to work. You know that there's endless amounts of toilet paper that you can use. There's great bath and body products, whatever it might be. So we're trying to combine the best of the hotelier experience with vacation rentals. So when you go to a Luxus vacation property home, no matter where you go, you're going to great night's sleep a fully stocked kitchen, an amazing bathroom and electronics that are consistent and familiar. And we think, if, if we were to sum up in one word, isn't necessarily luxury, it's certainty you know, giving people a very specific, certain experience that they know they're going to get.
Speaker 2:I we believe wholeheartedly that people just want to know what they're going to get. On the other side, the world's not providing it to them, so we're going to give it a shot.
Speaker 1:That's cool. And how did it start? Did it start? Did you start out doing this at this level, or has it? Has it grown to the point where you're realizing, okay, every year we're adding a new feature or we're adding things that are that are are more of a certainty when you get there? Is that kind of how this went.
Speaker 2:So it started off. It's a. It started off at a certain point. It certainly elevated as we went on to refine the process, but it came from my own wife and I and our problem. My wife was pregnant with our first, our boy 2006.
Speaker 2:And we knew we wanted to continue to travel, but, as new parents, maybe a little anxious and nervous, and we didn't want to travel hotels anymore. It didn't make sense. We didn't have the money to buy our own home. So we thought wouldn't it be fun if we put together a syndicate? And we basically raised $3.5 million from 18 friends and family, not intending at all for it to be a business. This is truly like to solve our own personal problem.
Speaker 2:And we bought a home in Maui, a home in Phoenix or Scottsdale and a home in Western Canada like a ski summer property. We bought all of cash and now we had a ski property, we had a beach property, we had a lake property and we had a golf property. And what we did it, though? We set them up the specific way play pens and booster seats, since we had babies, you know. We had proper knives, you know. We had a line opener, we had good electronics, and I can go down the list for 20 pages but had all these things. We wanted that business. Kind of unknowingly we were totally different careers but snowballed and we ended up raising close to $100 million and then buying 50 homes. It became a real business over that period of that kind of seven to 10 years and we left other careers focused on this and it evolved to your point over time.
Speaker 2:And what happened is we just recently, when COVID hit, which had a pretty tough impact on Canada during the time and lots of places in the world, obviously we decided to shut that down. So shut down a successful, good, solid, recurring revenue business and instead of having our kind of private club version, we felt we could build something bigger and better and I don't want to use that in a way that it was all about size but more about impact. We knew the experiences we were providing to our clients at the time and we had about 20,000 vacations over that you know, 16 year time period. We're like what if we get a million experiences? Like wouldn't that be pretty cool? Like a million experiences elevated around the world with people getting this better trip and vacation and memories with their family. And so now we tore it all down and we're rebuilding it back up under this new version with everything we learned and applying this for like, significant growth over the next five years wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:And now are you doing still doing a lot of syndication. Then are you still having investors come in and do this, or are you getting the money on your own? Like, how are you doing that part?
Speaker 2:yeah, so it's a great question. So we shifted from syndication and actually owning the assets because we felt, I guess, that the the way to set up the home, the way that we wanted we needed to own the home. That was like our fundamental belief in the early stages. But as we shifted along and we started working with partners like Marriott and Four Seasons on our development side, we realized I didn't know this at the time they don't own any of their assets globally. I didn't know this at the time. They don't own any of their assets globally. Mary doesn't own, I don't know. They own like 10 hotels out of their like 20,000 or something.
Speaker 1:I'm making it up.
Speaker 2:It's like nothing Same with Four Seasons. They got out of hotel ownership a long time ago and we're like, wow, so maybe we don't need to own the assets. Those are obviously super professional, incredible, world-class, leading brands and they don't own any assets but they manage a brand standard that's required of all their asset owners. So that's when we had this big belief shift to say, well, maybe we just manage other people's assets, apply the Luxus brand standards. So you have all these amazing things we learned over 20 years, apply them. We know that guests appreciate and guests will come and rent and reoccur rent as time goes on and decide to go that. So we are out of syndication. We're out of raising capital. We are managing personal people's individual vacation homes around the world and trying to a do a really good job, just running their asset, taking good care of their home. Be maximizing the rental revenue through our program.
Speaker 1:That's really cool, and then, obviously, you have a pretty serious set of standards for that. It's not like I'm just going to come up to you and say, oh, I got a place in Italy and I want you to manage it, and you're like oh yeah, ok, we'll manage it for you Because your reputation is on the line, because it's your name that is associated with these properties.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nailed it. It's like it's a very hard part. And the reason why? Because if I'm sure someone hearing this, you're like well, that makes total sense. Why are there not hundreds of these companies out there that can have these brands? It shouldn't be complicated to have the same linen quality in a portfolio's homes. It is actually tremendously difficult because you have to get in.
Speaker 1:The difference is that you've got a place in Italy, a place in Costa Rica, you've got a place. I mean, that's not easy. I mean you're managing that. I read that on here. That was the part, that was one of the things that blew my mind. It's a great night's sleep Experience, complete relaxation when you unwind with our signature Luxus mattress and premium sheets. I mean you guys are branding, you're branding sleep in places that are all over the world.
Speaker 2:It's true, and so there's like two problems. One is like logistics. Yeah, we're a very small company still, but we tend to be big and prove that we're going to be quite large over time, but we have to build the foundation to support that type of growth, yeah. The second thing is every homeowner needs to be convinced to make an investment in their property up front, because they have to apply these things. We get rid of their kirkland sheets and we put in our premium.
Speaker 2:You know hotel. You know luxury hotel know luxury hotel quality. They get rid of their serrated. You know Costco knives. Costco is actually a good knives but like I'm using it to their to our Henkel knives. So we have to change these things because we're not necessarily just selling pure luxury. It's really selling again an experience that people can expect to receive, and so that's the hard part and it's the reason why there's only a barely kind of ish, a few people in North America doing this and it's hard to get that on scale. But once the flywheel gets going and right now, the proof of performance and our numbers of the homes that are in our portfolio they're outperforming the market in so many factors because guests want that experience and others aren't providing it. So if we can convince a homeowner, it's got a $2 million home and they got to spend 40 grand or 30 grand to upgrade their home to the these particular standards. It's a drop in the bucket. If we get them 50 to 100 grand more a year in rental revenue, yeah, no, it's, it's.
Speaker 1:It makes sense. It's funny because we're kind of going through this on a very small level. My wife and I have a condo down in ocean city, maryland, and we we actually hooked up with a, a management company. That's a very small management company. It's called Benchmark. I'll give him a plug, since he'll enjoy that Benchmark Properties.
Speaker 1:They're out of Ocean City, maryland, and he's definitely very picky. I mean, we have to make sure we have everything the way they want it. It's not like, oh, we just do what we want. It's our house, yes, but we have to have a certain standard and it makes a difference. It really does. And because people come back, and that's the thing that's interesting is that we have people that keep coming back because of the experience, and I guess that's it. You know, and that's the thing is, if I go oh okay, I know that no matter where I stay, I know if I go to a Luxus vacation property, it's going to be this certain level, whether it's in Costa Rica or in Playa de Carmen, or it's in California, wherever it is, it's always going to be the same experience, and that is very cool.
Speaker 2:Well, and to your point, I should clarify when I say there's no one doing this, there actually are lots of good mom and pop shops local, regional.
Speaker 2:Maybe this company, like you said, are doing a very good job on a micro, regional level, or, like you know, maybe it's like Southern California as a regional level and they've just built this by applying their own version of brand standard, probably in a lot of ways consistent to us.
Speaker 2:I mean, you've got sharp knives, you've got nice linens, you've got good TVs, like a lot of these things are not like rocket science, it just comes down to like fine-tuned versions. But as an international player, no one's been able to really scale it to that level because it's the complexity involved. So we love those small mom and pop shops doing a great job. That's the type of companies we'll probably acquire as we grow that have already have these brand standards with this great portfolio homes to help or merge them into our company and allow to grow together. So now for your family, for example, if you travel with that company, you were like, oh, I wish they had a place in Caribbean or in Italy, whatever I got to go find the Italian version of this. Well, now you come to Luxus and we have them all. So that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's, it's actually cool. And what's interesting too, looking at the website for that company, all the houses, kind of all the, all the condos and all the places they do rent have the same like look going through them. So it makes you actually, it makes you want to actually make yours even better because you're like, wait a minute, they all look the same as mine. I'm going to make mine even better looking than that is. So it's kind of the same thing. I looked at your properties today and they're all just spectacular. I mean they're beautiful, beautiful locations, They've got great views, They've got beautiful kitchens. I mean you know it's, it's definitely a nice, a nice up, and the prices weren't as much as I thought they would be when I was looking at them.
Speaker 2:You know what, when we launched it's a great point when we launched the company, it was like, okay, we're going to build like luxury, because Luxus is the Latin word for luxury, so that was something we just found, it on 18 years ago. But luxury is a relative word. There's kind of like kind of three levels of luxury. There's like a attainable luxury, like something that's an early stage. There's luxury, then there's ultra luxury and that kind of like these gaps. So ultra luxuries, let's say, is your five, six, seven million plus type properties and your regular luxury. Regular luxury, you know, is, you know maybe between you know two to five million and then below that might be like this attainable luxury and they're all great. It very much is in the eye of the beholder. Someone goes to an 800,000 hour condo with a great bed and you know one bedroom and counter, I don't know granite countertops. They may feel they're in a luxury experience.
Speaker 1:It's relative to what they're used to we think luxury, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:So for us it just says, like, let's just build range so that if you're spending 500 bucks a night or 5,000 a night, we have you covered. Because maybe you want to spend 5,000 a night for one big experience super cool Caribbean seven bedroom house in the ocean but then you're going to want to go back to the same spot but you only want to be in a two bedroom with you and your wife and maybe one other couple. Well, I don't want to spend 5,000 a night. So we have the option to be in the same Lux's experience, but in a smaller condo unit or whatever it may be, and people like that. They have the flexibility then to kind of choose their mission, but stay within our portfolio.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool, that's really cool. What are the hiccups you're finding, like, what are the challenges that you're finding as you grow or in this realm that you're in? What are the the challenges?
Speaker 2:I would say the challenge for what we're trying to do is it's very hard to go multi-state and even harder to go international. Now it's a major buried entry. Now. We've been doing this for a long time in different versions so we're kind of like um, desensitized to the challenges of like let's just open up in, you know, dominican republic, like as we're kind of used to the idea of offices and the restructure involved to manage businesses in different countries, but it's a big barrier to entry for other people to do. So that kind of helps us in a factor from us.
Speaker 2:I think the biggest you know shift I would say in our business um is the.
Speaker 2:We knew getting into this, we tried to start at the trough there.
Speaker 2:We knew there was a peak and COVID, this artificial bump of vacation rentals where everyone in the world was doing it and everyone was trying to enter the business, and we deliberately didn't start version 2.0 until after that crash started coming down because we wanted to wait. It's better to buy low and sell high versus start high and sell low like everyone else, which is happening, and he gave tons of examples. It's unfortunately very sad it's how long this trough will be and to what extent the pain is. So the compliance regime is a big part of this issue. You're sure you've heard this, but like short-term rentals getting banned in cities all over the place. A lot of cities have well-established short-term rental guidelines that we can follow now, but there's a lot of cities still trying to figure it out and waiting for the rules to change. So we have to kind of park and wait before we enter city X until that city council has decided what their rules are around short-term rentals, and that sucks because we want to go to city X.
Speaker 1:Well, we had another guy on here that was that was kind of going through the same stuff. He was actually out in Colorado. He's Airbnb type homes and he said that's the biggest thing is that these townships and stuff are now discovering Airbnbs and they're getting complaints and all that stuff and now they're trying to write these rules. Problem is, if you already bought a property and you're, and you're, you know, basing your income on that, that's a big problem.
Speaker 2:It's, it's huge and that's why we actually have, like I said, advisory service. We call it, we don't really market it as such, we were not intended to be but we meet, see so many people make so many mistakes because they get to a market and I'm not bucketing all realtors in the same bucket but many of them don't really know the short-term rental space the way they should in their local markets and I, if you are a realtor listening to this, I encourage you to become a short-term rental expert in your area. Like literally know what the last city council meeting was and what they talked about related to this. And we see often they meet with a realtor. Realtor says and the says I want a short-term rental. They're like I'm sure you can short-term rental this place. I'll give Las Vegas as a great example, because we had a project going there.
Speaker 2:It's separate, but there was 20,000 illegal Airbnbs going in Las Vegas and a couple of years ago they had a lottery for 2,000 legal short-term rentals, so I had a client that was going down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, exactly 2,000 legal. Those numbers don't work well, Well exactly.
Speaker 2:So now what? Vegas hasn't figured out how to enforce the illegals yet, but cities will eventually figure out how to enforce illegals. So because they're not enforcing it, I had a friend went down, didn't use our realtor, use another realtor, and the realtor sold him a house and the realtor said, yeah, well, this guy short-term renting it. But he didn't know to ask the question are they truly a legal permit? It's only been doing it for 10 years. So I'm a client on their side saying, well, we've been doing it for 10 years, it's probably okay, and now he's going to get shut down in the next year and uh.
Speaker 2:So we encourage like, if you, if anyone listening, wants to buy a short-term rental vacation home and wants the real rules, contact us. We'll connect you with the expert in the area. I don don't know every market in the world, but we have a pretty good understanding of key ones in North America. But if we don't, we'll find you a person that can give you the proper guidance. So if you buy a rental, you do it with full disclosure and you do it knowing what you can or can't do with that particular property. You don't have a multi six-figure mistake because you have to the numbers that you're talking.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, when you're looking at these properties that are more luxury, we're not talking a place that's 150 bucks a night. You know that could get really bad really quick. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:It does yeah, I'm sure it does Like 500,000, like in Maui, and Maui is going through a short term rental and they're going to get they have to go to 30 or 90 day rentals. They'll probably cut their revenue by 80, 85%. So it's a that's material.
Speaker 1:It also hurts the resale value Cause if, if you're if you're gonna, if you were planning on doing that, if somebody and you're like and you put it on the market and you say, hey, by the way, you have to do 30, 60, 90 day rentals.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's that definitely hurts the, uh, the resale value big time. Yeah, it's big big swing.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of that that still hasn't been played out.
Speaker 2:Pardon me.
Speaker 1:I said, there's a lot of that just still hasn't played out yet across the country. The Airbnb is a short-term rental. A lot of that has not played out and it'll be interesting to see where it goes. So let's go into, let's go into your whole thing with the four seasons. You're doing that now. You're in partnership with them out in Vegas. Yep, You're putting up. Now what is that? That's private residences. Is that kind of is that? Is that a timeshare situation? Or is that just going to be all your luxury rentals?
Speaker 2:Good question. So think of both companies used to be integrated from kind of 2014 to 2020. And when COVID hit, we decided to totally separate the companies. So, even though they're under call it the Luxus Group umbrella you got Luxus Vacation Properties, independent Ownership, independent Management. And then you have Luxus Developments, which is Independent Ownership, independent Management. Now the commonality is I'm the majority owner of both companies, but we have partners in both of the companies to kind of serve their unique purpose. So the overlap as very little. So a lot of people think we built the Four Seasons to put over an L Luxus vacation property, but they're actually a whole separate business purpose and so that business kind of runs my, my partner, john, and uh, and it's it's kind of, you know, morphed into this wonderful relationship with Four Seasons, which is awesome.
Speaker 2:My mind, I think everyone's. It's like the, probably the preeminent global hospitality brand in the. You know, they're just unbelievable and they're equally amazing people. We are just blessed to work with them and we ended up getting the uh, the project for four seasons private residences Las Vegas. And to explain the difference is it's an important distinction and it's also exciting because it's a. It's a neat um change in the marketplace that we're able to try and bolt ourselves as being an expert on. But a lot of these hotel brands have always built hotel rooms and they've attached vacation rentals to the home. So very common with Four Seasons and others.
Speaker 2:Four Seasons is now in certain markets doing what they call standalone residential. So no hotels, no hotels, rooms at all, purely residential. Some of them you can rent, but in the case of Las Vegas it's purely to live. So it's really, if you want to live in Las Vegas and a luxury, amazing condo, lock and leave from two bedrooms to like six bedroom penthouses, so 4 million to 30 million, and I want to not be in a single family home and I don't want to live on the strip. There's very little options for luxury condo living and so we're building the Four Seasons branded vacation properties I say vacation residences there, rather, and it's a really exciting thing because Four Seasons has lots of these going around the world now and we're excited to be able to work with them on this one and probably some others. And it's a way you can now live the Four Seasons lifestyle but you don't have to share the pool chair with a hotel guest, because you're ultimately there with other residents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool and that's a that's a thing for you to say as far as on your resume, to say that you guys were good enough to to partner up with Four Seasons. I mean as as a resort. I mean, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, we pinch ourselves because, you know, we, we I don't know and we, we've done some pretty cool projects in the past. We thought were relatively cool for, you know, different parts of the world, Hawaii and all the other things, but working with them has allowed us to think bigger and think along a different level of scale and a bigger, bigger level of impact.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and for them. You know they choose their partners. You know very carefully, like, and it was so it's really was a bit of a an honor to be selected as as a development partner for them to develop properties and development partner for them to develop properties, and uh, and we're, they've just been great to work with and I think these are open and honest and transparent. Where our strengths, weaknesses are, and where we are unable to, uh, to fulfill a specific need that's required, we'll bring on partners that have that ability and we're thrilled to bring up.
Speaker 2:We're not the experts on everything we don't presume to be, so we just partner up for those who are yeah, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So let me go into the couple more things. One of the things that that was interesting real quick and I guess it kind of has to do with how you get started. In this it says here I wrote down you had a bad Disney experience as a kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, I did so. I'll try to give the abbreviated version. You can ask any questions. But my first plane trip and our first family experience, my parents were not wealthy. They were poor for lack of a better word because they had me as teenagers and I had my sister after, but worked very hard on their careers and built up a successful business and we had our first trip. I went to Disneyland and this was still early stage in their careers and got to the first hotel. It was kind of trash. I didn't know anything different. For me it was like oh, there's a pool, like very cool, like that's all I really cared about as an eight-year-old. And they're like we're going to a different hotel. And it was like, and I say hotel, this is a motel.
Speaker 2:Like you know where there's a courtyard, a pool in the middle Doors on the outside, to be very clear what it was. We go to Disney the first day. Of course it's magical, all you remember. It's amazing. And then we go to the hotel room, go to the pool, hang there in the afternoon, go back there. Our doors kicked in and our hotel, our motel room, was robbed.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I remember my parents. My mom was crying and my dad was obviously emotional and as kids, you don't know what to do. Or young my sister's a few years younger and they were like, okay, they don't know what to do. We're young my sister's a few years younger and they were like, okay, they didn't steal the passports, they took my jewelry, they took our cash. They're like I think we got to go early. But then they got really upset because they stole our three-day Disney passes. Like, what kind of thief steals your kids' Disney passes? And my parents didn't have any money so they couldn't just go like, oh, just swipe the credit card and go buy new ones and this is a big deal for them, you know. And um, so on this trip they spent a lot of money.
Speaker 2:But the really cool thing was is that, um, five minutes later, police are over taking them statements, this other family's checking out and they're like oh, we got robbed as well and we got wiped out. We have one day left four passes for disney. Do you guys want them? And they gave them my to my parents. And it's like I get goosebumps right now and literally just you know telling the story every time I tell it because it's like that is generosity, like you expect nothing in return. We were like boarding an airplane, you'll never hear from us again, but here's, here's this, and my mom was again crying again. And then, you know, we ended up staying for an extra day and went back to Disney for a second day and it taught me so much about, like, hard work, hardship, the way life is, generosity, and it kind of helped form a foundation, like my first true memory of a childhood that stuck out, that was formative from the rest of my life and, uh, was having beginning robbed in Disneyland.
Speaker 1:That's not everybody's experience of Disneyland the first time.
Speaker 2:Totally.
Speaker 1:Totally yeah, typically it's a little better than that, just so you know.
Speaker 2:We brought the kids back one point and it was a lot better experience now, but it happened. So anyway, that was it. Thanks for asking though.
Speaker 1:No, it stuck out to me when I was reading through your stuff, so we're going to wrap this up. I like what you're doing, I want you to stay in touch and, uh, just real quick, what are the places? What are the places? You think? Man, if I could just manage a place there, it would be awesome good question.
Speaker 2:I don't have a lot of familiarity with the east coast. I know you're on the east coast and so we're starting to like we're very familiar with the west coast western us, hawaii, latin America but East Coast not. So I'm really getting excited about. I won't say this is the one place, but like the one region. I want to understand, from the Carolinas down to Georgia and Florida, about places, and of course we know the obvious ones that you can see on the map, but some of those really special, like Sea Island, there's a lot of cool places.
Speaker 2:Carolinas. It's an amazing beach place play Hilton head, things like that so I'm excited to learn more about that. Uh, that side as we grow our business.
Speaker 1:Well, let us know we can help you out with that too. I mean, I've been on this, I've been out this way since I'm born, pretty much so 54 years of experience on the East coast. Um, I will call you. Yeah, definitely do, Definitely do I really appreciate your time and is there anything? You know what I want to do. I want to share your.
Speaker 2:Your website is luxusgroupcom right, and your Instagram is just a instagramcom backslash. Lux Luxus VP right, Correct, yeah, that's the main one. Yeah, and Stephen Patasky if they. I don't post a lot, but there's some odd things on there.
Speaker 1:Well, the best one was when your kids were falling asleep in the plane. That was, that was my yeah, and if you, if you're watching this show right now, you're listening. You got to go to his personal, uh, instagram. It was on your personal, I'm pretty sure, and it is. It's a trip. He's on a helicopter with his kids. He's uh, they wanted the window seats, I guess, or you thought they did, and they're falling. They're both falling asleep and there's a video that you take. That is just to me hilarious. It just if you have, if you have kids, it makes it even more funny that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Literally I've watched it 500 times. There were my kids and I was there and I still think it's funny it's hilarious dude no one's told me it's not funny, it's hilarious, it's hilarious all right.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for joining us today. I really appreciate it, man. We'll definitely have you back on and we wish you the best of luck with these properties. Uh, I'm definitely going to be taking a look at some of them. Maybe we'll end up staying in one of these properties, because they are very, very nice. All right, there you go. Steven Pataski he's amazing Luxus Vacation Properties. If you're looking for a really nice place to stay, whether it's in Costa Rica, or he has places all over the place there's places to stay. And there you go. He actually has serviced more than 20,000 vacations, which blew my mind. But yeah, check him out. He's online at LuxusGroupcom. That's about it. We'll see you next Thursday, 7 pm.
