The Mistake I Made With A Mid-Term Rental Opportunity
May 25, 2026 | 3.5 Minute Read I love mid-term rentals. These are guests who stay 30 days or longer at one of our properties, and they have become one of the best strategies for maximizing occupancy and reducing operational costs in our short-term rental business. With mid-term guests, we typically get: 100% occupancy for […]
How I Cut Risk and Boosted Cash Flow to $11K Monthly
May 4, 2026 | 3.5 Minute Read In May 2025, we hit a point where we had to make some clear, strategic decisions. The market felt uncertain. Interest rates were unpredictable. At the same time, we were dealing with multiple vacancies from tenant turnovers, and several of our short-term rentals weren’t producing the way we […]
Converting Rentals To Airbnb: Capital Paid Back
April 27, 2026 | 3 Minute Read Most investors purchase properties specifically to operate as short-term rentals (STRs). We took a different approach. We converted several of our long-term rentals (LTRs) into STRs. At one point, we operated as many as 16 STRs. However, not all of them performed as projected. The underperforming properties were […]
Stop Chasing Airbnb Superhost Status
April 20, 2026 | 2 Minute Read The past week brought several interesting developments with my short-term rental portfolio. One was positive and expected. The other was a painful reminder that operating short-term rentals comes with risks—even when bookings come through Airbnb. I regained Airbnb Superhost status, which I had lost earlier this year. Yay […]
Airbnb Guest Trashed My Property. Here’s What Airbnb Paid
April 13, 2026 | 4 Minute Read Back on February 23rd, I wrote about an incident titled “When an Airbnb Guest Trashed One of Our Properties.” The guest had originally booked the property through an insurance relocation company. These types of bookings are fairly common in the mid-term rental space. They typically occur when someone […]
Why Investors Are Buying Townhomes
March 23, 2026 | 2 Minute Read We currently own almost 15 acres of land in Birmingham, just north of downtown about 10 miles in Center Point. Back in 2018, we purchased this land for almost nothing with the goal of building both a townhome and garden home development — both already fully zoned for […]
Here’s What Happened After I lost Airbnb Superhost Status
March 16, 2026 | 4 Minute Read As many of you know, we’ve been operating short-term rentals for four years now. We launched our first property in March 2022. At one point, we had 16 short-term rentals. But volume doesn’t always equal profitability. Seven of those properties didn’t meet our revenue targets, so we converted […]
The Refinance That Boosted Our Cash Flow 50%
March 9, 2026 | 2.5 Minute Read This past Friday, we completed a refinance of 16 properties that were previously spread across three different portfolios with multiple lenders, consolidating them into one loan. The original loans were 5/1 ARMs at 4.5%, scheduled to reset in early 2027. Our new interest rate is 6.375%, which is […]
An Airbnb Guest Trashed Our Property
February 23, 2026 | 3.5 Minute Read By now, you know we operate nine successful short-term rentals. Our newest property, The Magnolia, had a slow January start — which was expected, as it’s historically our slowest month. But February, another typically soft month, rebounded strongly. We booked 17 nights and generated a net profit of […]
Build to Rent Isn’t a Trend. It’s the Next Phase
February 2, 2026 | 6 Minute Read It has become increasingly difficult to acquire properties using the BRRRR strategy. Nearly everything on the market is overpriced. Sellers are asking full appraised value for rental properties that simply do not cash flow at current rent levels, especially with financing rates averaging around 7%. Despite this, I […]