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Over 20 Years of Experience

Relax Vacation Rentals leads the vacation rental industry with genuine and personalized care for our owners and their homes, while providing unmatched, personally tailored, service and experiences to our guests.
 
We pledge to ensure that our brand remains at the forefront of today’s ever changing luxury travel industry by continually setting the highest standards for service and quality for every budget.
 
Our commitment to delivering excellence in service is demonstrated in our employees and chosen vendors who share the unifying principle of treating others with the same attention and care with which we wish to be treated.

Relax Vacation Rentals was founded by two partners, Leslie Cornell and Jill Lyons.

Leslie Cornell

Leslie Cornell is the driving force at Relax Vacation Rentals. She is passionate about hospitality and brings over 20 years of experience in hospitality leadership. Her initial training began at the Ritz Carlton which was the quintessential training ground for a premium guest experience. Her drive to make sure guests have a great vacation experience keeps them returning year after year.
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Jill Lyons

Jill Lyons is an avid traveler and knew she would love giving guests the experiences she craves when visiting a new destination. She is also a real estate investor and knows the importance of balancing guest expectations with Owner’s requirements for profits on their investments. She brings her 15 years of investment experience to create the best Owner experience.
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Happy Guests. Long-Lasting Relationships.

Our professional team exudes the company values we so firmly believe in, and that is; passion for hospitality and excellence in service.

Our success is measured by the number of happy guests and the long-lasting relationships with our homeowners. We are dedicated to making your travel experience a memorable one.

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We look forward to planning your next great getaway.
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Leslie Cornell

Leslie’s experience started immediately out of college with employment in operations with Hilton Hotels and Ritz Carlton. This just started her journey and brought her to Sarasota with the Ritz Carlton’s golf club. She continued her journey out of the hotel segment into the vacation rental market and found her professional home. She worked as an executive and in business development for large short term vacation rental property management companies in Florida including TurnKey and Vacasa.

Her experience and attention to detail will make her invaluable on your team to operating efficiently and produce the best returns. She wanted to start her own company so that she can offer a more personalized experience for the guests and clients. She lives in the area with her two daughters. When she is not working she is supporting her daughter’s extracurricular activities…she feels like she lives at the vacation homes we manage and a soccer field these days.

Jill Lyons

Jill has been in real estate for over 21 years, as an agent, then broker, and investor. She has been living in the Sarasota since 1976,
originally from Buffalo, New York and currently lives on Siesta Key.

Upon graduation from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she
earned a Chemical Engineering degree, she worked in the petroleum
industry for years, moving back to Sarasota in 1996 to avoid the cold winters she didn’t like. She found that there are few Chemical Engineers employed in the Sarasota/Manatee area, so she reinvented
herself in the real estate industry. She found her calling working with
real estate investors. Her systematic approach to property management is a direct result of her engineering background. It is all just a numbers game, which she approaches with client profit maximization in mind.

Her main focus in any transaction is putting the customer first. She attributes her success to the combination of knowledge, expertise, honesty and integrity, and believes communication is a key element to every experience.

She has been the broker of Relax Property Management for 11 years that currently managers 550 units. Her expertise as a property manager and investor has helped her clients get their money to work for them in the market. In a buyer’s or seller’s market, real estate has

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