Rafa Loza is a boutique hotel and short-term rental investor, and the host of The Big Break Show.
He’s got 72 STR units and counting. Oh, and he loves bulldogs.
Rafa’s speciality is Airbnb arbitrage.
So he leases properties long term. Gets ’em set up and beautifully furnished and designed. Rents ’em out on Airbnb for short term stays. Makes a profit on the rent difference.
He wants to show you how to do this in his new course.
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“Here’s the problem,” Rafa says.
“Anyone can rent an apartment and throw it up on Airbnb. But not everyone does it correctly, for longevity and profitability. Right?” he continues.
“You can get an apartment and not notify the owner or landlord about what you’re doing; and then a month later, when you have a bad guest or they find out that you’re running an Airbnb, you’re gonna get the boot.”
“Now you’ve lost all the money you’ve invested and you’re in a hard place to recover from,” he warns.
What you need to do instead is, once you find the right property in the right location, sell the landlord on letting you use it for short term rentals.
Explain to them how you’re solving their vacancy problem.
That you’re willing to sign a super long lease, so there’s no turnover. They’ll get a guaranteed check from you once a month for the next three, four, five years – or however long you commit.
Plus, you’ll keep the property pristine.
You’ll handle minor maintenance issues yourself. After all, the success of your STR biz depends on it.
Rafa wants to educate you.
And mold you into a solid short term rental operator.
Where you do everything by the books so that you’re building a BNB business with staying power.
And you make your initial investment back quickly, enjoy monthly cash flow, and systematically acquire more properties.
If you play your cards right, you can eventually work out a deal on an entire apartment building.
That’s the ultimate move since there’s no long term tenants there complaining about people coming and going all the time.
Inside his course, Rafa will teach you:
- How to acquire properties the right way by having the right conversations.
- How to set up, furnish and post on all the right channels (it’s not just Airbnb; there’s Vrbo, Expedia, Booking.com, and many more).
- And then how to hire and build the right team so you can scale without winding up in the psych ward.
In addition, you’ll get:
- Rafa’s shopping list
- Inventory list
- Key items he uses in each location
- A cleaners checklist
- Subletting addendums
- Short term rental contracts
- And other helpful resources
“I’ve been able to do this business with very little money,” Rafa explains. “And I know that if I can do it, you can do it too.”
“I started with $6,000 in cash, and a credit card, which I borrowed, that had like $9k open on it,” he remembers.
“I had no idea about investing.”
“I actually wanted to do traditional real estate investing but then I discovered this niche, went and got my first two-bedroom apartment, made like $6,000 in profit the first month, and I was sold.”
“I was like, ‘I’m going all in on this.’ And now I’m buying properties with the profit that I make and I have full control of my time.”
No joke, Rafa works 3-4 hours a week, max.
This includes checking in on his team, solving problems, telling them what to tweak and adjust, and keeping a close eye on KPIs. And that’s about it.
And yet, today it’s a multiple seven figure business.
The Stride Academy course has 120+ step-by-step videos, a private Facebook community, two live coaching calls each month, and all the aforementioned goodies.
Cost? Unlisted on the StrideAcademy.io website.
Book a call to find out, I guess.
As for me?
I’d prefer being robbed and chucked from a moving car over handling the complexities of STR arbitrage.