Different businesses.One operating logic.

The first stay began while I was still rebuilding my own life.

In 2018, after my release and while the murder charges were still pending, I started hosting from the Archer Drive Townhomes apartment in East Moline where my mother and I lived. I paid $550 a month in rent and generated roughly $75 to $100 a day at about 80 to 100 percent occupancy. Those are approximate operating figures from 2018.

When the apartment booked, I stayed with friends or family—and sometimes slept in my car—so the guest could have the space and the business could keep moving. I had bought my Virginia home in 2011, and I began using that property for Airbnb in 2019. The exact East Moline unit and all residential addresses remain private here.

I wanted the property itself to be the experience.

After years in electronics, I wanted to diversify beyond repair and retail. I did not approach Airbnb like a conventional landlord. Technology had already taught me that details matter only when they make an experience easier, more useful, or more memorable. Hospitality gave me a much larger canvas.

I built Yoshi’s Place around unique, themed short-term rentals: smart entry instead of key handoffs; useful connected technology instead of gadgets for show; rooms with identities of their own; and game spaces that gave groups a reason to stay in and spend time together. The goal was never an anonymous box with beds. The goal was a property people would remember.

That same instinct runs through the Davenport listing snapshot indexed earlier in 2026: an Egyptian-inspired master suite, a Cloud Room, a Reading Room, a nautical bath, a farmhouse kitchen, and a Game Cave built around billiards, air hockey, arcade play, a theater setup, and console gaming. The direct listing URL returned a 404 when checked on August 17, 2026, so I am not presenting it as proof of current availability.