Wendy & Derek Wood
Trusted Innsitting &
Private Residence Stewardship.
A hospitality-trained husband-and-wife team offering interim oversight for innkeepers who need to step away, and for private homeowners who value discretion, judgment, and continuity in their absence.
Based in Colorado, with engagements nationally by arrangement.
TWO PARALLEL PRACTICES
One standard of care.
For innkeepers who need to step away.
Guest-facing continuity, breakfast service, front-of-house warmth, and back-of-house discipline while you travel, recover, or simply rest.
For homeowners who value oversight.
A considered step beyond house-sitting. Judgment, discretion, and owner representation for private residences during extended absence or transition.
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Two careers, one partnership, three decades of practice.
We are Derek and Wendy Wood, married since 1998. Our hands-on innkeeping work began in the early 1990s, and InnQuire With Us has operated since 2015, with engagements taken on selectively alongside our other professional work.
Across our careers, we’ve run four-diamond hotel restaurants, managed multidisciplinary hotel operations, and managed and lived on-site at bed & breakfasts and boutique hotels in New York and Colorado, spanning more than a decade.
- Operating since 2015
- Hospitality management degrees + culinary honors
- 4-Diamond hotel restaurant general management
- Front desk, concierge, sales, catering & banquets
- A decade-plus span of live-in inn & hotel management
- 25+ years in partnership
- 20+ years self-employed
A quiet conversation is the right place to begin.
Every engagement is different. Reach out to discuss whether we’re the right fit for your inn or your residence.