ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Marco DiDomizio is a licensed hospitality broker, consultant, and strategist with InnAdvisors. He spent twenty years in corporate finance, first as a CPA and then running global finance for agencies including Ogilvy and Grey, before he and his husband bought a nine-room inn on Cape Cod. Over nine years they built it into the number one bed and breakfast in the United States on both TripAdvisor and Travel + Leisure, then sold in 2025. He now works with independent lodging owners on acquisition, growth, and exit strategy.
In this episode…Marco DiDomizio spent twenty years in corporate finance, first as a CPA, then running global finance at ad agencies, before he and his husband Angelo bought a nine-room Cape Cod inn that hadn't been renovated since the 1980s. What followed was nine years of intentional, incremental work that turned the Candleberry Inn into the number one bed and breakfast in the United States on both TripAdvisor and Travel + Leisure. He sold at the top in 2025. Today, through InnAdvisors, he helps other owners buy, grow, and exit small lodging properties.
The conversation covers the full arc of what Marco calls the InnAdvisors Method, acquire, optimize, exit, told through the real decisions he made at Candleberry. He's candid about the leap of faith the purchase required, the role a dedicated marketing partner played from day one, and the financial logic behind renovations that most owners defer too long. His thinking is unusually numbers-first for the bed-and-breakfast segment, and he doesn't shy away from the trade-offs: staying number one had a real cost, and he's honest about what he'd do differently if he bought again.
For independent hotel owners and operators, this episode is a ground-level look at how a small property compounds its value over time, through marketing, guest experience, food, and deliberate rate strategy, and what that means for the eventual sale. Marco's advice for owners thinking about an exit in the next few years is practical and specific, and the underlying principle is that it cannot be left to the end: a buyer and their lender look at the last three years of financials, so the work has to be done along the way.
