Short Term Rental Strategy with Danielle & Culin Tate

 

Short Term Rental Strategy with Danielle & Culin Tate

 

Guest: Danielle & Culin Tate went from unemployed to grossing over $1 Million annually through Short Term Rental/Airbnb Investing. Culin used his background in SEO to reverse engineer the AirBNB algorithm to rank their 10 listings on the top page.

Big Idea: Selecting the right properties for your portfolio in a tight geographic region provides the opportunity to better monopolize your chosen market.

 

 

    

Dan Breslin: Sweet. Yeah. So for listeners who don’t know, we’re on the video call. And you could see the host, Coach neon sign in the background. That is Danielle and Culin’s Hosting Company. They have 10 short term rentals that they have operated at what is an above average performance rate compared to what most people probably get out of their short term rentals soon to be 11. They’ve been doing this since 2018, and have written the book, which I believe, is also called Host Coach as well. Plug for the book. Cool. Welcome to the show. Do you guys want to share the backstory? How did you end up doing this, you know, starting in 2018, and maybe what’s the business model look like.

CTate: Yeah, yeah, excellent question. I started real estate the way a lot of people do kind of by accident, meaning that in 2018 I’ve always been a serial entrepreneur. I’ve had many startups, and in 2018 I was part of a startup that would basically shut down shop and just kind of looking at my life thinking. You know, I’ve got a 8 year old, son, am I gonna really go? You know, what’s the what’s the effort level look like starting another startup right? And and everybody that’s done that knows, you know the grind involved, and we had one short term rental at the time and it was, you know, a sideline kind of thing, but it was doing $4,000 a month or so in in gross revenue, and I thought. You know, I’ve always been kind of excited and interested in real estate. I could do easy math, and I can multiply 4 times 2 or 3, and start to see some scale there. And then doing what we do best. We iterated and used all of our background from having various tech companies separately and together, and really started to dig into. How do you make this perform? How do you? Once we had a couple we accidentally bought 3 from different people simultaneously. So we had enough to test some theories and really start to manipulate how we were presenting things and and work on the Airbnb Algorithm to be at 97% occupancy year round.

 

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://www.HostCoach.co/

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

 

Danielle & Culin Tate & I Discuss Short Term Rental Investing:

  • Top Page Ranking on AirBNB

  • Benefits of a highly focused Short Term Rental Portfolio

  • Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia

  • The Recent Evolution of Short Term Rentals

 


    

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Dallas – Fort Worth Industrial Real Estate Development with Michael Tran

 

Dallas – Fort Worth Industrial Real Estate Development with Michael Tran

 

Guest: Michael Tran is an associate vice president in the Colliers International Dallas-Fort Worth real estate office where he specializes in acquisitions & dispositions of industrial properties in Dallas-Fort Worth and throughout Texas. He has a background driving more than $600M in value through leasing and has closed more than 900 commercial real estate deals to date.

Big Idea: Dallas – Fort Worth Texas industrial real estate offers strong opportunities in the Small Bay Industrial flex space asset class. This asset class seems poised for continued cap rate compression & value increases as institutional investors have begun buying in bulk.

 

 

    

 

Michael Tran: Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, we’re we’re probably a little bit over like 9 50. Now, you know, we’ve had a little bit of slow down last year or 2. But you know, we’re a team of 5 guys who been out in the industry for over like 50 years combined. So we’ve got some heavy deal volume. We try to do at least 50 to a hundred transactions a year on the multi 10 industrial side.

Dan Breslin: So I am going to start us in a little bit of a unique philosophical place. If that’s okay, this is this is not going to be like a question. I have a little little bit of verbiage here to package this. So we have on one side of the coin, Sam Zell, and for anyone listening who does not know who Sam Zell is, Sam built a very large, multifamily portfolio. I believe he sold that. He built one of the largest mobile Home Park portfolios in the country. I believe he may have sold that he may still own it or his company, and he was probably the most known recently for timing in the office market and exiting equity office properties. I believe it was in 2017, and looking back, what we all know about office now, I mean, that was like impeccable timing. And unfortunately Sam Zell passed. So that’s Sam Zell and Sam Zell’s philosophy was. There’s way too much risk in developing real estate. There’s way too many assets out here that can be bought.

 

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

www.FlexBusinessParks.com

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

 

Michael Tran & I Discuss Dallas-Fort Worth Real Estate:

  • Uncapped Income Opportunities

  • Development of Small Bay Industrial

  • Buying into the Upward Trend

  • Lower Risk from a Broad Tenant Base

 


    

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Selecting the Top Airbnb Real Estate Market with John Bianchi

 

Selecting the Top Airbnb Real Estate Market with John Bianchi

 

Guest: John Bianchi is an experienced entrepreneur specializing in analyzing Airbnb data and helping investors identify profitable short-term rental opportunities. With a background in data analysis, he transitioned from managing rental properties in Chicago to focusing on providing valuable insights and strategies for Airbnb investors.

Big Idea: Understanding Short Term Rental Markets relies on the data. John describes how to do this on the show and even offers his 40+ course on the topic absolutely free.

 

 

    

 

Dan Breslin: So I found in my research for today’s episode that you started off in the Airbnb space with a handful of units in Chicago. Would you mind starting the origination story there and then getting to how your business looks today.

John Bianchi: Yeah, I was just about to get into it. And and mention that I absolutely love Chicago. It’s my favorite place, like Chicago in the summer is one of the best places to live ever right the waterfront, everything you do there so great memories from Chicago. But what the way I got to Chicago was I was actually looking to try and go anywhere in the country that was going to be really profitable for short term rentals right. And as an analyst and data analyst, I looked everywhere like genuinely everywhere. And I thought Florida was the place to be with the way that I was trying to do things I was trying to do rental arbitrage at the time without getting too into it. You rent somebody’s house, and you put it up on Airbnb right? Not a great business model in the long run. I know that nowadays. But Florida was looking amazing. I actually went down to Florida, drove around to 7 different cities over a 1 month period, trying to make it work down in Florida and failed, thought of my face, and just woke up one morning and drove 24 h back to Canada. Like was like, I’m done, and I took off. And at that time I I had actually left and sold another business to go do this. And I thought Florida was going to be it, and it just wasn’t whatsoever.

And so I was trying to figure out like, where do I go now? Right like, where the hell am I supposed to go? I had raised money from people I, you know, told my family I was leaving, and all of a sudden I’m back like, I feel like an absolute loser. And so now I’m like, Okay, where do we go, and the 2 options I had were Chicago or San Diego and, you know, having already gone a quick 24 h away, I’m like, let’s just go to Chicago. It’s a lot closer. We’ll make it make it work up there. And yeah. So anyways ended up in Chicago, figured out where exactly to go within Chicago, which was Lincoln Park. That was like the gold mine when it came to short term rentals specifically 4 bedrooms. If you could set them up proper way. And I, you know, within the 1st 2 weeks had 3 properties ready to go. And or I’d found 3 properties. 3 landlords who are willing to rent it out to me to turn it into short term rentals over the next month and a half. I got those all up, and running ended up after a 2 year period, having about 15 up and running handful of rental arbitrage. Handful of property management. Had my own cleaning company out there as well, and it was it was going well. And then, you know, Covid came around and wiped that all out pretty quickly. Luckily I still had the contract still had the ownership of them, and was able to sell that to somebody else which was its own fiasco. But then the main thing that I really got out of this entire process of what I built up in Chicago was, I realized that I was really really good at analyzing Airbnb data to be able to find properties that were going to work out really well. And that there was a ridiculous amount of people in the Airbnb space that did not know how to do that whatsoever.

So through that realization, I’m kind of an opportunist. And I figured out that I could offer that service of analyzing Airbnb data to people. And I have been doing that for almost a little over 3 years now. And it’s just continued to snowball. And I’ve continued to build a business from there.

 

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

This Episode is Also Sponsored by the Lending Home. Lending Home Offers Reliable & Low Cost Fix & Flip Loans with Interest Rates as Low as 9.25%.  Buy & Hold Loans Offered Even Lower.  Get a FREE IPad when you Close Your First Deal by Registering Now at  http://REILineOfCredit.com

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://www.strsearch.com/

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

 

John & I Discuss the Airbnb Real Estate Market:

  • How Hurricane Helene is impacting the Short Term Rental markets.

  • The risk of Oversaturation in any strong Airbnb market.

  • Get Good at Data to Win in Investing

  • 3 Metrics to Understand Any STR Market

 


    

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