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Cops Kicked In Our Airbnb Door for a Fugitive — What 10 Years of Hood Rentals Taught Us

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Texas Rentals: 0 Deals Cash Flow at 7.625% — Arkansas Still Does With 5% Down

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$220 a Month on AI Makes $10K — But Kids Shouldn't Touch ChatGPT Until 18

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Buy a Quad, Live in One, Repeat — 20 Doors in 5 Years

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PadSplit Changed the Rules Overnight — 22 Days of Empty Rent

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Airbnb Held His Payment — Then the Guests Vanished ($2,600 Gone)

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DFW Is Getting Ugly: We’re Done With 1–2 Bedroom Arbitrage

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The Claude Dashboard That Runs My Entire Rental Business

9

PadSplit’s New Superhost Rules and a $15,000 Fire Alarm

10

The FIFA World Cup Flop — and Rents Down 30% (with Mikey B)

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A $44,000 Insurance Claim and Two Creative Deals That Died

12

5 of 6 Rooms Full in a Week: My $25K PadSplit Build

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A Burst Pipe, a Denied Claim, and a Spare Key in the Cloud

14

Vending Machines on a 9–5: “No Card Reader, You Lose 70%”

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Health Insurance Is the Only Reason I Haven’t Quit My Job

16

I Fired My $200 PMS and Run Everything on $40 of AI

17

"Dalaska" Cold, Pungent PadSplits, & the Austin Real Estate Crash

18

Vending Machines in Your PadSplit - and the $550K Crash Pad Near DFW

19

Pivoting for 2026: Why I’m Stepping Back From STRs and Refocusing on Long-Term Wealth

20

Stevie Stacks 2025 Recap: From Airbnb Arbitrage to PadSplit Pro

21

The $80,000 STR Tax Hack & The Michael Jordan Gamble

22

World Cup Hype vs. Reality - What a First PadSplit Actually Taught Us

23

Crazy PadSplit Tenant Stories & Why We’re Ditching Short-Term Rentals

24

PadSplit Tenant Nightmare: What They Don’t Tell You

25

Pad Splits, Airbnb Fee Hikes, and Tax Savings Explained

26

House Hacking 2.0, PadSplit Profits & AI Agents Making $$$

27

First PadSplit Property - $700 Per Room, Three Tenants in Two Weeks

28

AI Hacks, Airbnb Warnings & Duplex Wins: Why It’s Time to Buy Smarter

29

Mastering Real Estate Cash Flow with Mid-Term Rentals, Tax Strategies, and Market Insights

30

How to Win at Rental Arbitrage: Practical Tips, Tough Lessons & Life Reflections

31

Owner Financing, STR Laws, Creative Funding, and Overcoming Fear in Real Estate Investing

32

Real Talk on Real Estate: Bookkeeping, Loans, and Saying No to Slumlords

33

1st of the Month Stress. Duplex or Triplex? Timeshare Arbitrages

34

Add Bedrooms, Hack Houses, Owner Finance, Virtually Stage

35

Provide More, Charge More: Ethernet in Every Room & PadSplit Common Areas

36

Renting your home by the room on PadSplit with Justin King

37

Pad Split, Home Warranties, World Cup, April Slowdown

38

Big money on VRBO & Booking.com? Why AirDNA is wrong. Higher Housing Prices, Lower Interest Rates Coming?

39

Government Contracts, Houses w Pools, Already Furnished Arbitrages, Tariffs = Staycations?

40

Four Months Fighting an Airbnb Squatter - Two Court Dates and Still There

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Setting up Airbnbs for Cheap, Sky High Rents, Too Many Apps, Corporate Focus

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Dead Cats, Cancelling Bad Guests, Appliance Rentals, Quick Arbitrage Setup

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Get Bookings/Reviews, Maintenance Woes, Seller Finance, Cleaners

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Creating Extra Bedrooms, Selling Arbitrages, Turo vs Rental Car Companies

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Who's Responsible for Arbitrage Maintenance? Landlord? Host? Airbnb?

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Selling Dallas Units for $500 Each - A $3,000 Settlement and a Fugitive in the Shower

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The 7 Stages of buying a Short Term Rental!

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When a Slumlord owns your Arbitrage, Evolve Sucks, Linked In, Hood Food!

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Going Corporate-First to Cut 95% of the Chaos - When Busy Season Breaks the Team

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STR Accountant, Host, MTR Specialist, Hyre Car Expert, Teonna Dorsey!

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Day-One Profitable Arbitrage - Booking Corporate Before the Lease Starts

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Professor to $30M Portfolio - The Five Mobile Homes That Replaced His Paycheck

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David Pere on VA Loans and House-Hacking a Fourplex

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Myka Returns to LLT! Management, Arbitrage, Creative Finance & Mid-Term Rentals!

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The Airbnb Check-In Glitch That Let a Guest Walk In at 11 A.M.

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Build Tax-Free Wealth w/ the Power of 1031 Exchange, David Foster!

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How a $30 shower addition helped land me a 6month, $6,200/mo booking, and more helpful tips!

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Zeona McIntyre on Midterm Saturation, Creative Finance, and Going Passive

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Getting to 95 Rental Properties while putting Life 1st! Erin Helle

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Cleaners, Handymen, and MGMT, all in house! Creating businesses/more streams of income for your primary business - Mike Brown!

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Condos, DIY, Revenue Management, Direct bookings w/ Chase Ryan!

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There's money in Airbnb Trash! Alex Shapiro, Can Monkey!

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Managing High-End, Luxury Properties Pays Much Better! -Deana Steele

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How an A-Hole Boss Motivated Me to Succeed at Real Estate and Airbnb!

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Episode 288: Don't quit your dayjob! "9 to 5 Preneur" Life w/ Ron Curtis!

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Rachel Wagner: 30 Arbitrage Leases and the Agency She Built After

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Jasper Ribbers Launches Freewild - The Box That Makes Guests Put Phones Away

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Building a Second Airbnb Brand to Fix Bad Reviews - Youthful Stays

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Ep.284: 35 Years of MTR, Corporate Rentals Experience, Toni Andell!

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Ep 283: Big Houses, Big Dollars w/ Tyann Hammond!

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Episode 282 Turnovers, Cleaners, Supplies, Logistics w/ Turno Founder Assaf Karmon!

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Dallas STR Regulations Injunction! Mid-Term Strategies, Dynamic Pricing, Negotiating with Confidence!

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Lease Renewals, Payment Tactics, and Navigating STR Regulations

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Architect to Advocate: Pam Holt on Mastering Mid-Term Rentals and Empowering Hosts

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Transformations & Tactics: Tony Robbins, Airbnb Updates, and the Rise of Multifamily

76

Tech Meets Hospitality: A Deep Dive with iGMS Founder Igor on Revolutionizing STR Management

77

Airbnb Going Downhill, Dallas' limited rental supply becoming a huge opportunity, and Finding The Right Cleaners For the Job.

78

A $1,000 Management Client From One Meetup - and Letting the VAs Run It

79

Dallas STR Ban in 30 Days - The 3% Cap That Wipes Out Hundreds of Units

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The $20,000 Tax Scare That Turned Into a Refund

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Rental Rundown: Navigating Taxes, Interest, and Innovative Strategies in the Real Estate Jungle

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Cutting $2,000 a Month in Labor Costs - and Deciding Which Units to Keep

83

The $25,000 Airbnb-in-a-Box Disaster - and Why Furniture Is the Worst Part

84

Scaling to 500: Brooke Pfautz's Vacation Rental Secrets

85

Why We're Exiting Arbitrage for Good - Management, Ownership, Insurance Clients

86

Cleaning Up the Short-Term Rental Scene with Derrick Agyiri, Founder of Cleanster.com

87

An $11,659 Two-Month Booking - and Three Vacant Days Since June

88

Sewage Backup in the Section 8 Rehab - $70K Over Budget and Dead ACs All Summer

89

Branding, Deal Closing, Properly Vetting Guests To Get Your Target Avatar

90

Evictions, Poor Management Companies, Dallas' Downfalling Housing Market

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Million Dollar Host Julie George/ Building Systems & SOPs to Scale!

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Furnishing an Entire Short-Term Rental for Under $11,000 - Ashley Ching

93

Using Data To Increase Your Airbnb Revenue w/ Intellihost founder Jeff Brown

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The Do's and Don'ts of Co-Hosting & STR Management w/ The STR Guide!

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Upsize your Portfolio w/ Multi-family, Commercial and Syndication: Charles Carillo!

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Navigating Dallas's Airbnb Ban and Profitable Strategies

97

Dominating The Memphis Airbnb Market w/ Tim Hubbard

98

The Darkside of Direct Booking. Chargebacks and Fraudsters!

99

5 to 500 Short-Term Rentals - Joe Riley's Run at 1,000 Units

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Airbnb Summer Updates & The Best Ways To Pick Up Airbnb Properties in Texas