As of February 2024, we’ve been running a short-term rental (AirBnB and VRBO) for a year now. And truthfully, we aren’t too happy with the results. All of the “gurus” out there say just find someone to let you rent a property, post it, and you’ll magically start making $2,000 a month profit. Well, what gives? As of the time of this writing I haven’t done an analysis on the first year to see how much we made, but IF we made anything it’s very little. Definitely nowhere near $24,000.
I wanted to create this site as a way for me to relearn everything. They say knowing a skill enough to teach it is best, so here we are. It’s going to start with everything leading up to acquiring an AirBnB, and then evolve into how to run successful short-term rentals once we get there! I’m going to go back through our year of data and see what went well, what we could’ve improved on, and what we can transfer over to additional properties.
It’s not going to be easy, but we’re going to learn how to do it together. Let’s get started!