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So, you’re an Airbnb host in a saturated market. The investment blogs said it would be easy to build a thriving short-term rental business in your area, but you've got a lot of competition.How do you stand out? Can you use design to create a guest experience that sets you apart?Kate Shaw and Betsy Moyer are the cofounders of Retreat Experiential Design, an all-in-one Airbnb experiential design firm that transforms Airbnb properties into true retreats. Betsy is also the creator of the home décor and interior design brand, The Estate of Things, and Kate is an Airbnb Superhost with a portfolio of 10 units near Joshua Tree National Park.On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Kate and Betsy join me to share the fundamentals of experiential design, explaining how they identify the unique value proposition of a new property and design with the with guest in mind.They discuss how to succeed in a saturated market like Joshua Tree and offer advice on creating a win-win between Airbnb hosts and the local community.Li

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Savvy short-term rental hosts have pivoted in the last 18 months, shifting their business model to provide family-friendly accommodations that welcome kids and pets for long-term stays.  So, what does it look like to set up an Airbnb that works for large families and their furry friends? Legends X Alum Rachel Gainsbrugh is the Cofounder of Short Term Gems and the Chief-of-Staff at All Pocono Rentals. She also works as a full-time pharmacist and has a husband, three dogs and two kids! On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Rachel joins me to share her top tips for hosting families with pets, explaining how she pivoted the Short Term Gems brand to cater to displaced homeowners. She offers advice on dealing with insurance companies and describes how to adjust the guest experience for families who are there because something happened to their home. Listen in for Rachel’s #1 lesson learned from participating in Legends X and learn how to provide a 5-star guest experience for pets—a

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Not only is airbnb used for vacation rentals, many use airbnb to get a better feel of a city when looking into buying or investing there. What if you could gain real estate clients from an airbnb property that is already bringing you in residual income? Cythnia Tant is a real estate agent and broker out of Pensacola, Florida who owns 3 businesses that all work together cohesively. She started investing 30 years ago, becoming a real estate agent 10 years after and has been a broker for the past 11 years.  On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Cythnia joins me to explain how she combines and leverages her real estate business, long term rental business and short term rental business to all feed into each other. She provides insight on the disadvantages and advantages between long term and short term rentals, and what she’s learned through her years of experience. Listin in for insight on leveraging airbnbs to boost your real estate business and success, and get her advice on ho

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In the Legends X program, we help students transition from hectic Airbnb host to millionaire short-term rental manager. And in the process, we coaches learn just as much from our students as they do from us. So, what were our top takeaways from leading the first session of our STR accelerator? Legends X Head Coach Julie George started with one Airbnb property in 2016, and in just two and a half years, she built and scaled a property management business of 130 listings and generated $8M in income. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Julie joins me to share the lessons she learned from working with the 52 hosts in our first round of Legends X, describing the benefits of using dynamic pricing tools and focusing on a specific guest avatar. We explore how Julie avoided becoming a hectic host herself and explain how Legends X helps hosts create the systems they need to take themselves out of the day-to-day as soon as possible. Listen in for Julie’s insight on the results of Legends X

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The future of travel is in unique experiences. And the more Instagrammable your short-term rental listing, the more likely you are to succeed in the long term.  So, what if you could design your space from the ground up, building your own A-frame, log cabin or tree house to rent out on Airbnb? Alex Jarbo is an Airbnb Superhost out of Asheville, North Carolina, who builds his own unique vacation rental properties. He is also the host of Alex Builds, a YouTube channel dedicated to documenting his journey as a vacation rental developer and manager. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Alex joins me to explain what inspired him to build his own vacation rentals, walking us through the process of buying land and sharing his checklist of things to consider before you build.  He offers advice on finding the right architect and contractor for your job and working with lenders to finance a STR build. Listen in for insight on navigating county zoning laws to secure the proper per

So, your Airbnb side hustle has turned into a full-time job.  You’d like to scale the operation and run a true hospitality company, but at the moment, you’re the only one who knows what to do. And you don’t feel comfortable outsourcing any of the work to someone else.  You’re the epitome of the hectic host, and you’re not sure how to get to the next level. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Eric and I sit down to discuss the five stages of STR hosting, describing what it’s like to be a hectic host and why it’s so challenging to scale from that position.  We explain how to transition from hectic host to rising star, sharing the three things you need to build a true hospitality brand.  Listen in for insight on creating a vision for your vacation rental company and learn how our STR Business Assessment can help you leave your hectic hosting days behind and take the first steps to becoming a STR Legend! Topics Covered The 5 stages of short-term rental

If you have dreams of buying properties to list on Airbnb but you don’t qualify for a traditional mortgage, all is not lost! You can still acquire real estate and build a portfolio of short-term rentals by way of creative financing. Isaac Moore and Andrew LeBaron are the Cofounders of Buy More Time, a short-term rental property management company out of Arizona. Isaac and Andrew are also experienced real estate investors who specialize in using creative financing techniques to scale a STR portfolio and helping others do the same. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Isaac and Andrew join me to share their top creative financing strategies for acquiring Airbnb properties. They explain how to leverage seller financing, hard money or personal lenders to build your short-term rental portfolio and offer advice on using non-qualified mortgage products to purchase properties. Listen in for Isaac and Andrew’s insight on selling a lender on your hosting track record and get their five-step plan for buyi

During the pandemic, smart Airbnb hosts focused on making it easy for guests to work from home. But Aaron Hanauer took it a step further and made it easy for his guests to work OUT from home as well! Aaron is an Airbnb Superhost out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He got into the STR space in 2017, renting one unit of his 1916 Tudor-style home on the platform and investing the profits to add a garden apartment to his STR portfolio soon thereafter. During COVID, Aaron and his wife Colleen focused on the health and wellness niche, adding Peloton bikes as an amenity in their Airbnb units. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Aaron joins me to discuss the benefits of marketing to Peloton users, explaining what’s special about the Peloton experience and how the bikes have led to a 15% revenue increase. He shares the cost of adding a Peloton to your STR units and describes what he is doing to ensure guest safety in his listings. Listen in for Aaron’s insight on making your Airbnb a health and wellness des

Airbnb was a crazy saturated space pre-COVID and once the whole world shut down, it caused everyone, including people in real estate to have to majorly pivot and pivot quickly. Now, as some city regulations are slowly being lifted, where do you even start with the market with the way it is right now? How do you manage to do Airbnb successfully when the guidelines have become so strict, let alone grow it into a reliable business during this time? How do you eventually get to a place of holding dozens of units at a time? Michael Kiriazis and Peter Francis, are the founders of Goat Hote, known as the GOAT (“Greatest Of All Time”) of recommendations for food, fun, and experiences in the travel world. Michael and Peter started their management company only three years ago, now with over 60 units across the U.S. In the past 2 years during COVID, they were able to massively pivot from a master leasing model to predominantly a management model. The two have been active members of our Legends X community even bef

The best business strategy is a satisfied customer. And if you host one or two short-term rental properties, it’s fairly easy to earn five-star reviews on Airbnb. But how do you maintain a high-quality guest experience at scale? How do you rack up 2,000-plus reviews and keep a 4.99 rating?Sean McGregor is the Founder and CEO of Stay Work and Play Co-Hosting, otherwise known as SWAP Lofts. Sean and his wife Lindsey have been hosting on Airbnb since 2012, garnering 2,212 reviews and a 4.99 rating overall. Sean pivoted to the cohosting model during the pandemic, and so far, he has built a portfolio of 15 listings in five states. He is also an active member of our Legends X community.On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Sean joins me to explain how he pivoted his STR business during COVID, sharing what he did to connect with property owners and build his management portfolio. He discusses using Thumbtack to find good team members in a new location and walks us through his plans to scale SWAP. Listen in for S

So, you don’t quite make enough money to support yourself as a short-term rental host. But you know you need to spend more time on the business if you want to grow. Do you wait and try to save more money? Or do you take a leap of faith, quit your job and go all-in on Airbnb? Sergio Castaneda is a part of our Legends X community and the founder of Jungle House, a short-term rental company out of Columbus, Ohio. Sergio was running two successful Airbnb units on the side while he worked full-time. But after a particularly stressful week on the job, Sergio quit to run his STR business full time. Today, he supports himself fully with the revenue from four listings and Jungle House was recently named one of the top 18 vacation rentals in Columbus. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Sergio joins me to explain why he quit his job to go all-in on Airbnb, describing how it felt to walk away from his 9-to-5 and what the transition to full-time host looks like. He offers advice on how to attract bookings

To scale a short-term rental business, you need more properties. And the best way to expand your portfolio is to build relationships with the right people. People who can help you find new units to manage. So, who should STR operators be connecting with? And how do we go about building those relationships? Liam Carolan is the short-term rental expert behind Ginger & Gold, a property management company out of Norwich in England’s Norfolk County. Liam started hosting on Airbnb in January of 2019, and today, he and his partner have a 10-unit portfolio of master lease and management properties. Liam is also a member of our Legends X community. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Liam joins me to explain how he builds rapport with letting agents, challenging STR operators to get out of our comfort zone and provide value before we go for the ask. He explores who to build relationships with as you scale and how to build trust by considering what’s important to the other person and following up on

If you manage one or two properties on Airbnb, it’s fairly easy to keep track of your communications with cleaners and maintenance personnel. But as you grow a STR business, it gets more and more challenging to oversee quality control and keep up with routine maintenance on multiple listings. So, what can you do to streamline your cleaning and maintenance processes and maintain a high-quality guest experience—no matter how many properties you manage? Jeremy Gall serves as CEO of Breezeway, the leading property care and operations platform for short-term rentals. The Breezeway software helps coordinate, communicate and verify detailed work, supporting STR hosts in delivering the best possible guest experience across a portfolio of properties. Jeremy got his start in the STR space in 2006 as the cofounder of vacation rental marketplace FlipKey before shifting his focus to management and founding Breezeway in 2016. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Jeremy joins me to explain how Breezeway helps

There are two ways to get more direct bookings: You can either find new customers or get current customers to return. And when you try to recruit brand new guests, you’re competing with the marketing budgets of well-known OTAs like Airbnb. But past guests are much easier to market to and sending an email is free. The question is, what’s the best way to collect our guests’ email addresses? Arthur Colker is the Founder and CEO at StayFi, the premiere provider of Wi-Fi marketing services for vacation rentals. Founded in 2018, StayFi is on a mission to help short-term rental managers seamlessly collect guest information, build brand awareness and drive more direct bookings. Arthur also serves as the editor-in-chief of  VRM Insider, a content platform for the vacation rental business. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Arthur joins me to explain why it’s important to collect guest emails and describes how StayFi can help us build a stable of return customers. He offers suggestions for content

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