Shawn Monroe

I really like this line, especially in regards to people just asking one-word questions like “availability?”

Short answer: this is a part time gig. As @Jamie21said, it’s too unpredictable. Plus after a layoff in 2015 and the pandemic, I don’t like having all my eggs in one basket. longer answer: with the amount of traveling, appointments on a trip, appointments during the week, communication and admin, it can really feel like a full time job.

Can you confirm your sources? I know they’ve had that “southern belles” sign out for about a year now. But at this point the land around it in west midtown is becoming too expensive / valuable and a strip club of any kind there now seems implausible.

Nope! The lot was full so we parked at the park down the block.

I agree with everyone else here. I was there. It was packed, I got vip for me and my friends. my car window got busted and car got broken into (they stole nothing). But had a great time and no regrets. it feels weird that it’s not there anymore. And it still doesn’t feel real, like they’ll post on instagram like “just kidding! We found a new spot with financial backing!”

You should follow matt colunga on Facebook. He regularly posts about his progress opening both spots. For now he’s focusing on his dallas spot. So much so that he actually moved there. as for johnson’s atlanta, the place he was going to open it in (in Ansley) fell through. Which would have been great as it would have created synergy between the midtown moon set of bars, and hideaway. He’s been looking but every place wants restaurants, and the laws for strip clubs are homophobic and tailored to female strip clubs. so for now he’s focusing on dallas, then possibly Denver and atlanta.

It may have to do with the way rentmen and rentmasseur render our travel dates. Rentmen is a little better about it than rentmasseur, but they often make it look like we are in a city for up to a month before we actually travel to the city. I spend more time texting “hi - thanks for reaching out. I’m not currently in [travel city]. My ad should say I’ll be there from [travel dates]. Would you like to make an appointment for when kn in town?” most of the time they don’t, because they’re looking for something immediate. And because of that, I’ve considered just posting my travel cities when I get there, since most guys want to meet the first day you’re there. it really could be that the trip was spontaneous, but I figure it’s a way to cut down on headache.

Rentmasseur still shows rates in the US, with the option to put “ask for rates”. Rentmen doesn’t show them on profiles in the us but there is still the “ask” option.

It’s because after SESTA and FOSTA were passed in 2018, rentmen took ads off the site in the US, to try to rid themselves of liability. Some other things changed too. If you try to put them in your profile they’ll edit them out. It’s not up to us.

And as I said the last time we discussed this (which was probably last month), it’s also probably a factor of rentmen taking rates off the site and no one knows (without major digging) what the going rates for a particular city are.

Considering omicron has really only been a thing since early/mid December, if most people are experiencing a decline in business, it’s more likely due to the holiday season, and a general decline that happens right now. Not to discount omicron, but it’s too sook to tell and the holiday causes discrepancies.

1000 would book some hotels (and / or flights) for some work trips.

Shawn folds his towels differently than matt does. Shawn spends lots of time in hotels, so he folds them the hotel way. 😉

Really hoping he’s just pulling our chain on the place closing. But never know.

It may also be a good idea to search for who you’re looking for in here to see if he’s been reviewed, since many of us have. You can search by RM URL, or search the 5 digits in their masseurfinder profile (mine is 24130) to see if they’ve been reviewed here.

I just heard about swinging Richards. Guess I’ll have to go back time or two. hopefully the plan to open a Johnson’s here gets back on track.

In most situations that does occur. Sometimes they don’t want it, sometimes ED or other situations allow them not to be able to. But most of the time it does happen!

that said, you’ll have some people that have attractions that lean one way and political beliefs that lean another. You’ll find a lot of us will just…keep our mouths shut since we are getting paid.

Problems with racism occur right here on this very forum. You can absolutely believe that we experience it in work.

You’re correct about KCMO - I found the most success staying in the country club plaza area. I only had the chance to get to St. Louis once. But when I visited, I stayed adjacent to the galleria there.

One of the things I stress out about the most is my hotel in a city - will my massage table fit, and is it in a safe, well regarded and centrally located area in the city. there will always be clients that don’t like to travel, and some cities you can’t win for trying in, but if you can locate your hotel well, you can avoid a lot of that. And as you said, southern and midwesterners are more averse to paying to park and going downtown - other places they’re more used to it. In terms of booking, There are a few cities that are exceptions, but my general rule of thumb is to always avoid downtown, and always avoid airport areas. If you can (there are some cities where I can’t) you want it to feel like they’re going to a “destination” or to have an “experience” too.

This topic is going much better than the last time it was posed!

This is precisely why I just moved all my pics out of the private gallery on rentmen. Got so tired of random people asking me to unlock my gallery. They still ask on rentmasseur but most people there know you need a membership to look at galleries. other than that I also agree that the sites don’t do enough. I’ve been contemplating writing out my complaint on another post from a few months ago.

Why would we try to top that what kind of weird competition is this

To assume that bookings (and I mean more so “requests” for bookings) ever slowed down substantially because of the pandemic is the kicker.