Meet Tim & Erin
Systems built for
the work behind the property.
Built through vacation-rental operations in Charleston, South Carolina, Host Sidecar brings systems engineering, property-specific workflow design, clear writing, and visual communication into one maintained operating layer. The people closest to the property keep the hospitality, relationships, and local judgment.
Tim Waldron
Systems & Operations
Tim brings more than 30 years of enterprise systems and automation experience, together with more than 10 years refining the operating model behind Host Sidecar’s own Charleston rental.
Erin Perkins
Editorial & Design
Erin brings more than 23 years of tourism journalism, editorial leadership, and art-direction experience to Host Sidecar. In Charleston, she led Eater Charleston and Eater Carolinas, shaping destination coverage, local storytelling, and visual presentation.
Why Host Sidecar exists
Our property became the proving ground.
One real property
Host Sidecar grew from the single Charleston rental Tim and Erin operate—not from a generic software template.
More than a decade of refinement
Pricing, calendars, guest information, arrivals, turnovers, access, reporting, and follow-through were connected, documented, tested, and improved.
A system built to adapt
Host Sidecar now shapes that operating model around each customer’s property, tools, and team. You keep the hospitality, relationships, local judgment, and final decisions.
Experience behind the work
Different disciplines.
One operating system.
Host Sidecar combines enterprise systems, automation, real short-term-rental operations, editorial judgment, and visual communication. The value is knowing how to turn those disciplines into a property-specific system that continues working after setup.
What we bring to each property
Your operation, engineered around the people already running it.
Host Sidecar configures and maintains the operating layer around the property’s tools, workflows, information, and responsibilities. The recurring work becomes more connected, visible, and dependable while the co-host, manager, owner, and local team retain their relationships, judgment, service, and final say.
Free Revenue & SEO Report
Find more revenue in the property you already have.
Your free report identifies what guests already respond to, where that proof is underused across search and booking surfaces, and three property-specific improvements to strengthen SEO, build booking confidence, and grow revenue.