Created by Patti Hope based on her 2021 TEDx Talk “Finding Home in the Sharing Economy”​​

 

A young widow, Hope Richards, (Lauren Senninger) is convinced by her favorite Aunt Kat (Paula Dale), to move to Kat’s badly-neglected, funky Mount Dora, Florida home, and rent it out using an Airbnb-like model called iStay.​​This is a story of Hope’s new life as a guest house host and a single woman. The ensemble cast includes a Jamaican neighbor (Colete Davis), and MAGA neighbor (Jesse Chudeusz), and a gender-fluid handyperson (Matt Clapp). Celebrities and undiscovered talent will be cast as guests, some in recurring roles -- think Love Boat, Fantasy Island.​​Hope’s late husband, Professor ‘Dutch’ Richards (Josh Blake), who appears in memory sequences, was a cultural anthropologist. In each episode, the theme and character stories revolve around concepts, i.e., Discovery of Fire, Seasonal Migration & Use of Tools.​​​​Production Company: JC Conklin, Director, Chill Baby Productions

 

​​​Filmed in Mount Dora, FL and vicinity.

 

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