Meet the Board

Mark Shay is a business developer who after a long history of success helping higher education institutions recruit, retain and better serve students has shifted into real estate sales. His 25 year career serving higher education has been filled with innovation and successful ventures, developing products like GradSchools.com and StudyAbroad.com. Today that same spirit is behind PoconoVacationHomeSales.com where Mark has created the Pocono Short-Term Rental Scorecards to help his clients better understand the rules and regulations around Short-Term Rentals along with articles and resources to help start-up and run successful vacation home rental businesses.

Mark found his way into vacation home real estate after listing his vacation home on VRBO and seeing that business take off. He decided to focus his real estate business as a buyers agent for vacation rentals, taking his personal experience and mixing that with a deep study of the regulations that are popping up across the Poconos. More than 35 of Mark's clients are now running their own short term rentals in the Poconos and the common feeling that they were being treated as second class property owners led to his co-founding the Poconos Association of Vacation Rental Owners where he serves as the organization's President.