The 3-Hour Property Manager
November 17, 2025 | 3 Minute Read With a sizable rental portfolio, I’m often asked, “Why don’t you just outsource property management and spend more time adding more doors?” The answer is simple: with the systems we’ve built, managing our rentals only requires 3 hours per week at most. When your systems and processes are […]
Our Secret to Being Airbnb Super hosts
November 3, 2025 | 4 Minute Read We’ve been running short-term rentals for almost four years now, and the journey has been nothing short of educational. At one point, we scaled up to 16 doors. Today, we’ve streamlined our portfolio to a core group of eight high-performing properties—the ones that consistently deliver the best results. […]
My Week of Chaos Running Short-Term Rentals
October 13, 2025 | 3 Minute Read The past week has been interesting, to say the least, for our short-term rentals. Right now, we’re operating eight properties—down from sixteen when we first started. Why the Reduction Simply put, some of the properties weren’t performing to our expectations. While they were still profitable, the returns didn’t […]
How I Keep My Airbnb’s Booked During the Slow Season
August 18, 2025 | 3 Minute Read When we launched our first Airbnb in Birmingham, Alabama back in early 2022, I had a realization: Birmingham isn’t a vacation market—it’s a necessity market. What do I mean by that? Travelers don’t come here to sip piña coladas on the beach. They come because they need to—for […]
We Are Shifting Our Short Term Rental Strategy
March 25, 2025 | 3 Minute Read When we launched our first short-term rental (STR) in early 2022, we were excited by the potential for higher income. Our thought was simple: why not convert several of our long-term rental properties into STRs? As long as we could net at least $200 per month—similar to what […]
I Made $100K This Month. How’d You Do?
March 24, 2025 | 1.5 Minute Read March turned out to be a solid month. While in Dallas for a conference, we sold one of our turnkey properties. Now, I’ll be honest—I hesitated to sell this one. It was pulling in a 16% net cap rate, which is nothing to sneeze at. So why let […]
You Need Multiple Streams of REI Income
March 24, 2025 | 3 Minute Read When I first started investing in real estate back in 2002, my sole strategy was wholesaling. It had a low barrier to entry with minimal costs, making it an easy way to get started. And it worked—until 2008. When the market crashed, buyers disappeared, and most wholesalers quickly […]
How My Mid-Term Rental Earned $7,805 in 30 Days
January 27, 2025 | 1.5 Minute Read In several previous posts, I’ve highlighted the power of mid-term rentals. It’s a huge opportunity in the short term rental space and if you are not leveraging these opportunities, you are at a disadvantage. Let’s revisit what makes this such a valuable strategy. What is a Mid-Term Rental?A […]
My Secret to 80% STR Occupancy During Slow Season
January 6, 2025 | 3 Minute Read After three years of running our short-term rentals, I dread our slow season – from December through February. And when I say slow, I mean dead. Last year, our average occupancy during these months is 16% below our normal average. For example, from December 1 to December 31, […]
Drive Occupancy in Your Short-Term Rentals with this Strategy
November 11, 2024 | 2.5 Minute Read A few months back I started exploring strategies to boost bookings across our 13 short-term rentals. In our market, monthly occupancy rates around 50% are considered average, but I aimed to improve this, especially during weekdays. In peak season, we focus on maximizing nightly rates, aiming for that […]