Amanda Williams, better known as Amanda The Traveling Realtor, is a top 1% earner at eXp Realty.
A lot of people think that company’s a pyramid scheme.
Except the members who’ve wisely ranked blog posts at the top of Google to tell you, “Nope, definitely not a pyramid scheme, now go ‘head and join my downline.”
Pretty hilarious.
Anyways, Amanda also sells short-term and mid-term rental courses, such as her Halo Method Arbitrage System.
She’s even got an affiliate link to Storylines, where you can live abroad a luxury residential ship and travel the world.
Chick has more garbage for you to buy than a Walmart on Black Friday.
Should you work with her? Read every word of this Amanda The Traveling Realtor review to find out.
Amanda got started in real estate back in 2012 when she bought her grandmother’s house.
Went in, renovated it – paint, flooring, updated the bathrooms, the kitchen – and then found a long-term tenant who paid $1,100 a month in rent.
Next, she got into flipping.
Went ahead and got her real estate license, too, because she figured it’d be faster and cheaper to wheel and deal on properties.
The following year, Amanda scooped up nine homes leveraging owner financing.
By 2017, she had opened her own real estate firm.
Six months later, she bumped into eXp and said, “Screw it, this sounds easier,” and teamed up with them instead.
Back then, there was only like 3,000 agents at the company. Their stock was at $2.42 per share.
Today, they’ve got close to 90,000 agents, the stock’s already split once, and it’s still sitting pretty at about $10 a share.
“So that’s really what got me thinking more about traveling and expanding my vision,” Amanda explains.
“And just being able to do something with real estate worldwide, and not be stuck in like small town Raleigh, North Carolina – which is where I was when all of this was happening,” she continues.
“And so, it really just opened my eyes to what’s out there.”
“So that you can have travel, you can have real estate, and you can have partners all over the world,” she adds.
But yeah, everything was going great.
On the side, Amanda was still assisting buyers and sellers as an agent, she was still flipping, still investing.
Then life happened.
Her dad’s cancer came roaring back, much worse than the first time.
Amanda turned their family home into an Airbnb so it could bring in some money while she flew her dad to Mexico for this alternative treatment she had been researching.
“Oh, wow, this is making way more than my long-term rentals,” she realized.
Needless to say, Amanda was hooked.
A year later, she had scaled to 12 short-term rentals. All on Airbnb.
But she didn’t purchase all of them. She used rental arbitrage on quite a few of them.
Still, that portfolio of STRs was netting her like $10 Gs a month. Not bad.
Especially when you add that to her long-term rentals, eXp revenue share, real estate commissions, and the occasional flip.
How’d she navigate Covid?
Well, after Airbnb cancelled all bookings indefinitely, and Amanda lost about $60k worth of future stays practically overnight, she had to pivot.
By chitchatting with people on Facebook, she finds this nice family from New York who wanted to come to North Carolina for lockdown.
Boom. Amanda was now in the mid-term rental game.
She switched most of her marketing to try and attract people who wanted something that was fully furnished, all utilities included, to stay 30 days or longer in any of her now 25 single family homes.
Hence whey she’s relaunching her $2,000 course – to school you not just on STRs but MTRs now as well.
Should you get involved?
I’m more split than a pair of cheap jeans.
eXp smells a bit too much like MLM leftovers, and Amanda? She reminds me of a wind-up toy – zipping in all directions.
But she’s accomplished a lot and could probably teach you a thing or two.
As for me, I’m content with virtual real estate. Tap below.