About EZStay

A property management company built around one idea: hosting should still feel personal.

We started EZStay to bring proper, hands-on hosting back to short-term rental management.

Our story

Full management, without losing the person.

EZStay manages short-term rentals for landlords across Airbnb, Booking.com and LekkeSlaap, based in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal. We started the business because most of the industry had reduced hosting to a keypad code and an automated message. There's a gap between doing everything yourself and handing your property over to something that impersonal, and EZStay exists to fill it: full professional management, with a real person still meeting your guest at the door.

We're a young company and we're growing carefully. We'd rather take on properties we can genuinely give this level of attention to than scale past the point where 'personal' stops meaning anything.

Florida Luxury Escapes lounge styled for guests, Durban short-term rental managed by EZStay
Dining room set up for guest arrival at an EZStay managed property in Durban

Our approach

In-person hosting, as standard.

Every property we manage gets checked in and checked out by someone from our team, in person. We walk guests through the space, answer questions on the spot, and stay reachable for the length of the stay. Self-check-in via keypad or lockbox is there as a backup, for a late flight or an early departure, but it's never the default. Most operators quietly dropped this as they scaled up. We haven't, and we don't plan to.

Who we work with

The owners EZStay is built for.

  • Owners with a single property who want it managed properly without becoming a full-time host themselves
  • Landlords deciding between short-term rental and a long lease, who want a straight answer before committing
  • Owners already with another agency who want better communication or better returns
  • Owners based overseas, or too far from the property to manage the day-to-day

Our team

People first, properties second.

On the ground, EZStay's hosting is led by Mahomed Zaheer Seewa, who handles guest walkthroughs, check-in and check-out, and the day-to-day running of our managed properties. As we grow, the team grows the same way: people first, properties second.

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