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I executed something similar years ago with Airbnb. I started on my couch with one home that I airbnbd full time. My first home that I considered a test cost $17,000 to rent and furnish. I had this place for exactly two years and I profited $118,000. I quickly ramped up to 18 homes then raised a friends and family round and grew to 80 homes. I followed that with a $3.7m seed round last year.Note 99% of your work will be from your living room, but you will have to leave it at some point:(1. Pick an uncontested short term rental market. What I mean by this is- markets where short term rentals/Airbnb/less than 30 day rentals are legal.2. Find a home or apartment in an area that is highly demanded by tourists but not highly demanded by locals. This is important because tourists will pay a premium for this area which means bigger revenues, meanwhile if it's not highly demanded by locals you will pay less rent.3. Get a landlord to remove the 'no sublease clause' ie get them to allow you to Airbnb the home.4. Furnish the home stylishly, colorfuly, and inviting.5. Have professional photos taken.6. List the home on all the major vacation rental websites like Airbnb, Flipkey, HomeAway, Booking.com etc7. Hire a cleaner/check in person.8. Rinse and repeat until you have enough places the are equal to or > than 6 figure income.Bonus: acquire properties a month or two before high season begins so that your pay back period is shorter. Example: acquiring a place in Denver in mid Dec means it will take 4mos+ to hit the profitable season as tourism is dead Jan-March. If you start mid March you are only a few weeks away from 7 mos of profitable season April-Oct.Requirements:1. You will need to learn a bit about pricing trends. When are large conferences? When are music festivals? Is there a difference between the two regarding how you price or when you take a booking? Do prices jump during the marathon? What's the price difference between high season and low season ie how does my place differ in Summer vs winter in Palm Springs, Aspen, or Scottsdale? Here are some examples:A. During big conferences when prices are really high, let's say $1000/night vs your normal $500/night people tend to arrive the day before the conference and check out on the last day of the conference. This means if the conference starts on Monday and ends Wednesday your Sunday rate should be in line with your Monday and Tuesday, but your Wednesday should be much less.B. Conference goers book way in advance while leisure events like a music festival see a lot of last minute bookings. I do not worry if my place is not booked a week before a music festival, but I do worry if it's not booked a week before a dentist convention, for example.C. If I am getting more weekend inquiries (requests to book) than weekdays then this means one of the two are not properly priced. Either my weekdays are too expensive or my weekends are too cheap.2. How to negotiate with landlords and how to make them feel comfortable about you vacation re taking their home.3. You will need to be available 24 hours a day. You will not work 24 hours a day, but undoubtably a guest will lose their keys at 1am and call you at some point:(4. Learning a bit about designing jokes and photography will help your cause.5. Undertstanding Finance, such as ROE and IRR is not a requirement to be profitable, but it certainly won't hurt.6. You will need a few dollars to get started, approximately $5,000-$10,000 at the minimum.I'm happy to answer questions.

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