Adulting Is Easy (Lauren)

Sep 22, 20221 min

How to Learn About Short-Term Rentals (STRs)

Updated: May 1, 2023

So you're interested in real estate investing, particularly short-term rentals? That's great! I myself own and manage 8 of them, so naturally people ask me how to learn all the time. I've listed what you should do in order of ambition, from low to high.

  1. Listen to Adulting Is Easy Podcast Episodes:
     
    - Episode 150: Getting Investment Money Out of California
     
    - Episode 148: New Investor Buys 1 LTR and 2 STRs in 1 Year
     
    - Episode 143: From Actual BANK to STR
     
    - Episode 139: Pro Soccer Player Opens First STR
     
    - Episode 135: Short-Term Rental Arbitrage
     
    - Episode 125: Getting Started in STRs and Getting Direct Bookings
     
    - Episode 118: STR Regulations
     
    - Episode 112: STR Setup
     
    - Episode 106: Syndicating STRs
     
    - Episode 85: #WealthWednesday: STRs
     

     
    How to listen:
     
    - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4QV9qt9oBOyIbO4xArED1x
     
    - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adulting-is-easy-making-adulting-easier-by-making-money/id1486213364
     
    - Website: https://www.realadultingiseasy.com/podcast-1
     
    - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtKGYc18MdUa-sEztHUp9kQ
     
    - And more
     

  2. Read Adulting Is Easy Blog Posts
     
    - 6 Things I Wish I Knew About Short-Term Rentals Before I Started
     
    - STRs vs LTRs
     
    - Short-Term Rental House Hack Case Study
     
    - Running the Numbers on Short-Term Rentals
     
    - New Real Estate Adventure on Our Way to FI
     

  3. Go to Bigger Pockets: (no affiliation with Adulting Is Easy)
     
    - Listen to podcasts
     
    - Interact in the forums
     
    - Buy and read this book: Short-Term Rental Long-Term Wealth
     

  4. Download Adulting Is Easy Resources: https://adultingiseasy.gumroad.com/
     
    - Analysis Guides
     
    - Success Guide
     
    - Checklists (Free)
     
    - FAQs (Free)
     
    - Etc.
     

  5. Take my friend's remote management course that I helped create:
     
    https://adultingiseasy--rethinktheratrace.thrivecart.com/remote-airbnb-management/
     

  6. One-on-one coaching: I help you with your finances, analyze deals, and walk you through setting up your STR
     
    - https://www.realadultingiseasy.com/book-online

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