In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Josh Chapman, who is a father of 2 and works a full-time day job as a civil engineer in Dothan Island, Alabama. In as few as two and a half months, Josh has scaled up to 4 rental arbitrage and 3 co-hosting properties and is about halfway away from allowing his wife to quit her full-time job.

Josh shares how he was able to grow his Airbnb rapidly with 7 units in two and a half months and the challenges he encountered in doing rental arbitrage and co-hosting.

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As an Airbnb host, it is crucial to know how to optimize your Airbnb listing to get more bookings! 

In this episode, we have the honor of speaking with Daniel Rusteen. Danny is the author of Optimize Your BNB, the highest-rated and most highlighted book on Airbnb 

Danny shares a lot of valuable content on how to get your Airbnb listings to the top to increase your chances of getting booked and make more money! 

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House hacking is appealing for many reasons. First, it eliminates your largest expense which is likely rent or mortgage. Second, it allows you to get into real estate with not a lot of money down, and lastly, it is a great way to build wealth and achieve financial independence.

In this episode, we are with Craig Curelop, author of the book, "The House Hacking Strategy," and currently works at BiggerPockets. Craig talks about how he did his first house hack and soon turned it into a short term rental which helped him pay off his student loans and mortgage.

House hacking helped Craig achieved financial independence, and now, he doesn't have to do things he hates to do.

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In this episode, I had the special honor of speaking with the newly-wed couple, Ray and Vanessa Vargas. They decided to convert the mother and daughter live in space of their house into an Airbnb, and within 45 minutes of going live, they got their first booking! And it has been rented every single weekend for the last 3 and a half years.

Ray and Vanessa realized that there's a huge business opportunity with Airbnb and thought what it would be like to manage other people’s properties.

In 2018, they took the leap and founded Home Sweet Hudson. Being the first in the market to provide property management services, it gave them a huge head start in building a portfolio of properties. Now, they are managing 25 properties, and continuing to grow and scale their Airbnb business.

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In this episode, I had the special honor of speaking with Maria Kelley. Maria started her own business, Kelley's Hands On Demand, an errand and concierge service in Augusta, Georgia after she got laid off from her wok.

One of the services her company provides is cleaning and when she started going out to business networking events, she found a couple of short term rental investors who needed her cleaning services. Maria started doing the cleaning for one property, but because of the relationship she established with her client and her willingness to take on other tasks, she was offered to take on additional hosting tasks. Currently, Maria manages 10 properties and makes as much as $500 per property per month.

Maria shares her journey from cleaner to cohost and how important networking is to get clients. She also talks about putting systems in place for her team and guests to make sure that her business still runs even without her.

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In this episode, I had the special honor of speaking with Alvin Cavalier. Alvin started doing short term renting in March 2018 and is now remotely managing 24 properties which are located in 10 different states and 14 different cities, and the other amazing thing about him is he is a full-time active duty army and has been in service for 18 years. 

This episode is one of a kind! Alvin walks us through the process of looking for properties that are for rent, creating an attractive offer to homeowners/landlords, setting up a process to manage your properties and people remotely, structuring your short term rental business properly to maximize the tax advantages of the rental arbitrage model, and monetizing a shared economy service. 

There are a lot of takeaways from this episode that can you start applying to your own vacation rental business! This is an episode you don't want to miss. 

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Today, I had the honor of speaking with Anuj Datta. Anuj, prior to jumping into short term rental investing, owned various franchisees such as gas stations, Subway, and Checkers. Because of the overhead costs in those businesses, he decided to sell off his businesses, move to Houston, Texas, and jump into the real estate world.  

Anuj has 10 listings that he owns himself, and three of those are shipping containers that he turned into a very unique tiny home. He is currently growing his management company to take on more clients. 

Anuj talks about how his background in business helped him started his short term renting business and had it going smoothly. He also shares how the idea of converting a shipping container to a short term rental property was brought and what he did to make it stand out from the rest. 

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In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Tariq Hasan. Tariq came from Bangladesh and moved to Montreal to study and do his Master’s Degree. He worked as a software engineer but after 11 months, he felt that his career was very much structured and thought he wanted to try entrepreneurship. 

Within 5 months after leaving his job, Tariq now manages 5 units where he is making as much as $5000 in revenue off of 1 unit. Tariq shares how he started his journey and why he made that bold decision to leave his job and do short term renting full time. 

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Investing in short term rentals takes a lot of risk, especially that you will be putting a lot of money and hard work in it, and Michael Cotroneo took that risk.

Michael was a full time employee who bought his first single family home in Houston in July 2017. He rehabbed it and turned into a long-term property. Later on, he realized that doing short term rentals is more beneficial since it’s giving him a higher rental income. In addition to that duplex, Michael invested in RVs and currently owns multiple properties in Arkansas.

In this episode, Michael shares his experience in transitioning from working as a W2 employee to owning and managing short term rentals. He also talks about the contrast of investing between single family homes and the RVs, and the difference of rehabbing homes for short term rent vs. long term rent.

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In this episode, I had the special honor of speaking with David Krauss. David is the co-founder of NoiseAware, an innovative noise monitoring service for short term and vacation rental managers. After a party that happened at one of David's airbnb properties, he was forced to sell his property and lost over $30,000 which almost ruined his business. David met Andrew Schulz and they started to build the "The Smoke Detector for Noise" with the goal to save short-term rental owners and managers from the same nightmare David endured.

This is a great episode where we talk all about what Noiseaware is, why it’s a crucial tool for your business, and how you can stop parties from happening in the first place.

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