REI122: Airbnb Investing Deep Dive w/ Travis Zappia

Robert Leonard brings back Travis Zappia to chat all about investing in Airbnb properties and the short-term rental investing strategy. Travis Zappia is a FIRE advocate who has started to get into real estate investing in the last three years. He purchased his first house hack in 2016 and decided to rent out each bedroom individually while living in the master bedroom. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - New laws significantly limiting Airbnbs in Atlanta. 04:33 - If a new approach to STRs is needed due to the new laws. 07:21 - How to diversify an STR portfolio. 11:11 - How to get started with STRs. 13:19 - How to manage your time as a W2 employee and investor. 20:57 - Why W2 jobs can actually benefit you as an investor. 22:43 - Which rules to have in place. 24:29 - Which STR platforms to use. 29:31 - How to insure your STRs. And much, much more! *Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members. Related episode: Listen to REI103: The Truth About Airbnb Investing w/ Travis Zappia, or watch the video. Related episode: Listen to REI088: Airbnb & Short-Term Rentals w/ Tony Robinson, or watch the video. A new newsletter all about house hacking. Learn about TIP’s Investing Starter Packs on real estate. Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth book. Gary Keller’s book The Millionaire Real Estate Investor. All of Robert’s favorite books. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our Millennial Investing Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try Kyle’s favorite tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: HelloFresh Fundrise Linkedin Marketing Solutions TurboTax NerdWallet NetSuite Connect with Robert (@therobertleonard): Website | Instagram | Twitter Connect with Travis: Instagram | Airbnb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Millennial Investing by The Investor’s Podcast Network is hosted by Patrick Donley and Kyle Grieve.  Millennial Investing is one of the top-ranked investing podcasts in the world geared to the millennial generation. Here’s what we do: - We have conversations with the world’s best investors, entrepreneurs, authors, and thinkers and explore their ideas, methods, and stories to help YOU better invest your time and money. - Think of us as your research team who finds the most interesting and profitable investing and business insights that you'd normally have to pay for. Except it’s free! - Our mission is to improve people’s financial literacy and business savvy to help in making better investment decisions with their time and money. Start listening. Master the best of what other people have already figured out so you can use their lessons in your life to learn how to invest and build wealth. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @JPatrickDonley, and Kyle on Twitter @IrrationalMrkts.