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The Landlord Diaries is a podcast about Mid-Term Rentals and real estate investing. On the show, hosts Kelly Bailey & Katie Lyon discuss topics like investment strategy, property management, listing tips and more. By listening, you’ll walk away with creative ways to maximize your real estate investment through Mid-Term Rentals, create passive income, as well as hear some entertaining and interesting landlord stories. The Landlord Diaries is brought to you by Furnished Finder, the trusted lea ...
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Unlock the secrets to maximizing your rental income year-round with expert real estate investor Leslie Hooper! In this episode of The Landlord Diaries, Leslie shares her unique strategy of balancing short-term rentals (STR) during peak football season and mid-term rentals (MTR) for the rest of the year. With over a decade of experience and a thrivi…
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It’s Talking Heads: 77 as the boys convene in New York City for a pilgrimage to B&H Photo, where they ambush veteran camera guru Michael Armato at the used counter for what proves to to be a truly phenomenal interview. Then it’s off to Fotografiska for the long-promised visit to the Vivian Maier and Bruce Gilden shows. Who will emerge victorious wh…
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Welcome back to another insightful episode of The Landlord Diaries! This week, we're thrilled to have Jeff Hurst, President & CEO of Furnished Finder, join us once again. If you missed Jeff's latest state of the union address, be sure to check out episode 100 for a comprehensive update. In today's episode, Jeff reveals exciting new platform updates…
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Welcome to The Landlord Diaries! In this episode, we sit down with Allen Duan, a mid-term rental powerhouse with a portfolio of over 26 managed and arbitrage properties in Southern California. Allen shares his incredible journey from short-term rentals (STR) to mid-term rentals (MTR), a strategic pivot driven by local restrictions and market opport…
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Hurricane Debby brings a downpour of camera gear! Gabe’s out with his Leica III and Mamiya C330, while Jeff samples some digital Leicas. Gabe chats with Toronto photographer Jessica Devic, and Jeff recounts his acquisition of a rare Alpa 10s from a seller in Alaska. Tune in for all the fish stories! It’s raining cameras! So much to report… Gabe fig…
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Welcome to The Landlord Diaries, the ultimate podcast for real estate investors looking to maximize their returns and simplify their landlord journey. In this episode, we're thrilled to have Eric Greenstein, a seasoned real estate investor and the founder of LikeMinded, a thriving real estate investment group. Eric owns two prime properties in Ft. …
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Welcome to The Landlord Diaries! In this episode, we sit down with Christine Xie and Katie French, two of the innovative founders behind IZEAL STAY, a modern, fully furnished corporate housing solution in Las Vegas. Operating over 40 properties for mid-term and short-term stays, IZEAL STAY is revolutionizing the rental market. Episode Highlights: 0…
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One of the Best Photography Podcasts To Listen To In 2024 (per Amateur Photographer magazine) returns to bask in some praise for a change! In this blockbuster XL episode, we run down our travels in Europe and Canada, recap recent celebrity photo shoots, exult over exotic gear acquisitions, and dive to the bottom of our Prodigious and Informative Ma…
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Welcome to "The Landlord Diaries," where we bring you inspiring stories and insightful tips from the world of midterm rental real estate investing. In this episode, we dive into the remarkable journey of Bailey Kramer, a young entrepreneur who chose real estate over college and is now generating over $12k per month with his mid-term rental properti…
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Welcome to The Landlord Diaries, the ultimate podcast for property owners, real estate enthusiasts, and aspiring landlords interested in the mid-term rental strategy! Join us for an inspiring and insightful episode featuring Leslie Garcia, a successful mental wellness practitioner in New York City who has launched her first mid-term rental in Edgew…
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In this episode, we're diving into the world of mid-term rentals with Shawn Costley, a seasoned expert from Huntsville Corporate Housing Solutions in Alabama. Shawn has mastered the art of rental arbitrage, securing six out of his seven mid-term rentals through this innovative strategy. Join us as we explore three essential topics for every landlor…
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In this week's riveting episode of Furnished Finder's podcast, The Landlord Diaries, we sit down with Tara Jenkins from Chicago, Illinois. Tara is not only a mother of three with multiple degrees in hospitality, but she also has a profound love for travel. She masterfully manages five hybrid short-term/mid-term rental (STR/MTR) properties—four loca…
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Two glasses of white wine reduces Jeff to drunkenly raving about travel cameras, airport hand-check injustices and (predictably) his usual cast of bêtes noires. Meanwhile, stone-cold-sober Gabe offers sharp, reasoned takes on the new Pentax 17 and the cameras of 1955. Tune in to Episode № 74 (not 75) for all the mayhem! Jeff recorded this episode f…
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Today we recap our key takeaways from the 2024 Mid-Term Rental Summit brought to you by Jesse Vasquez & Furnished Finder. If you missed this one, then we hope you plan to join us next year! Watch your Furnished Finder emails or follow www.MidtermRentalSummit.com. In this episode we cover: 0:00 Intro- Welcome to The Landlord Diaries 1:20 Why Furnish…
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Jason & Kellie Davenport will challenge us today to unlock our potential in the mid-term rental space through insurance stays. Their 4 homes on Furnished Finder average $4,000 -$7,000 each in monthly cash flow. Jason & Kellie receive insurance requests from all over the country and have established Vetted Homes to further educate MTR hosts on the t…
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Join us for a milestone episode of The Landlord Diaries as we celebrate Furnished Finder's 10th anniversary and the exciting journey ahead. In this special 100th episode, meet our new President and CEO, Jeff Hurst, who brings over a decade of experience in the travel technology and rental industry. Jeff shares his vision for the future of Furnished…
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“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.” — Max Reger, German composer (1873–1916), responding to a savage review Jeff’s in Lisbon at the start of a month-long European trip; Gabe’s in LA developing his own film for the first time in years. But what’s obsessing them the most? Th…
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Today we travel to Des Moines, Iowa. We talk with Chris Dickey about his 12+ mid-term rental units & co-ownership in Top Shelf Property Management. At this point in time, Chris advertises his mid-term rentals exclusively on Furnished Finder. In this episode we cover: 0:00 Intro- Welcome to The Landlord Diaries 2:05 Chris’s journey to real estate & …
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Stellar Housing Solutions is a mid-term rental company based in New Jersey with 13 active MTRs & 3 managing partners: James Hwang, Frank Louvis and Denis Um. This team has very impressive Furnished Finder guest communication tips we will discuss today including 1) preferred photo order 2) multiple users managing one account 3) well designed message…
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Today we discuss two main concepts with Saad Dar, his real estate portfolio of around 20 units & his position as Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Baselane, online banking built for real estate investors. Baselane is trusted by over 40,000 landlords. You can earn up to 4.19% APY (Annual % yield), up to 5% cash back, create individual b…
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(Part 2) Dr. Rachel Gainsbrugh is known as the Luxury Short Term Rental Doctor and her luxury brand is Short Term Gems. Rachel was a speaker at the 2023 Mid-Term Rental Summit and is an expert in the luxury short term, mid term rental space. Rachel has a heart for training busy professionals in how to overcome burnout and change their trajectory wi…
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A transformational live-on-locational supersensational IDOCstravaganza! First we go to a Los Angeles Photography Club Cameras and Coffee meetup in Koreatown to talk to folks about their cameras and dogs. Then we SPAN THE GLOBE to interview Jo Geier, proprietor of Mint and Rare, a phenomenal camera shop in Vienna, Austria. You won’t want to miss thi…
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(Part 1) Dr. Rachel Gainsbrugh is known as the Luxury Short Term Rental Doctor and her luxury brand is Short Term Gems. Rachel was a speaker at the 2023 Mid-Term Rental Summit and is an expert in the luxury short term, mid term rental space. Rachel has a heart for training busy professionals in how to overcome burnout and change their trajectory wi…
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Today we embrace the value of real estate accountability partners. Jessica Williams is an accountant for Bigger Pockets, realtor & investor with 3 mid-term rentals & 2 short-term rentals. Jennie Lyday is an RN and real estate investor with 5 mid-term rentals, 7 single family homes & a 16 unit apartment complex. In this episode we cover: 0:00 Intro-…
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Consulting Producer Tucker Sachs, the real brains behind I Dream of Cameras, has long lurked in the shadows with a bone and a chew toy, but in this episode he finally steps into the light. Also discussed: photo books, photo contests, photo walks and photo acquisitions, along with every syllable of your deathless prose from the Prodigious Mailbag™. …
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Sam Primm is a legend in the real estate investing and education world with over 250 doors, $46M in assets within 7 years, 2.7M followers on social media, 1.4K students nationwide and author of the book “Own Your Freedom”. Exciting news, Sam is a host on Furnished Finder and will be starting a mid-term rental master class this year. In this episode…
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Today we talk with California real estate investors, Vince Rodriguez & Andrew McCormick, founders & managing partners of AnVi Invest. These guys both have full time jobs, are hosts of the RE Social podcast and have over $10M+ Assets Under Management (AUM), 25 Doors, over 700k+ annual gross rents & over $1M+ total capital raised. Their desire for ca…
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Shelly & Justin Nupp are Knoxville, Tennessee, real estate investors that have experience with flips, one of which was featured on “First Time Flippers” Season 8, Episode 8. On properties they decide to keep, they embrace the mid-term rental strategy and typically aim for $1k per property in monthly cash flow. The Nupp’s have turned their passion i…
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He wouldn’t…. Now that the long-raging and ill-advisedly-ignited Vivian Maier debate has finally died down, Jeff wouldn’t throw gasoline on those embers by expressing a Strong Opinion about some recent Viv-related news, would he? Well, you’ll just have to tune in to find out. Also discussed: the boys swap cities, Gabe in New York and Jeff in Los An…
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List your property today for one low annual price on FurnishedFinder.com 0:00 Landlord Diaries Intro 0:45 Step 1: Researching Mid-Term Rental Demand 2:10 How does Furnished Finder differ from other OTAs? 4:25 Step 2: Furnishing Your Property 8:25 Step 3: Start Marketing Your Property 8:35 You can start with “Furniture Coming Soon” 9:20 The Housing …
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Susan Kienitz is a mid-term rental investor in Long Beach, California. She has 9 rentals total including an 8- plex that her family has owned for 25+ years. She has converted 6 of these units to mid-term rentals and will educate us on her process. In this episode we cover: 0:00 Intro- Welcome to The Landlord Diaries 3:15 Susan has binge watched all…
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Jason Griggs is a gym teacher turned real estate tycoon known as the “go to guy” in Las Vegas for short or mid-term rentals with one specific luxury property, The San Gabriel, that rents for $30,000 - $50,000 monthly. Jason is a realtor and property manager at Simply Vegas. He also owns Griggs Vacation Homes. In this episode we cover: 0:00 Intro- W…
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Paulina Porizkova joins the boys to offer her unique perspective on the art and business of fashion photography. How’d she get into it? What’s the most important thing a photographer should know about working with models? Why does Paulina call Irving Penn “Mr. Penn”? Does the fact that Jeff has a spreadsheet of when he last changed the batteries in…
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Ricardo Sanchez is both an ICU travel nurse with over a decade of experience and a Furnished Finder host in Indianapolis with an 8 bedroom duplex house hack. In this episode we cover: 0:00 Intro- Welcome to The Landlord Diaries 2:10 Ricardo’s experience w/ permanent & travel nursing 3:20 What led Ricardo to house hacking by the room, furnished 6:55…
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Elaine Quiroz is a founding member of CHPA (Corporate Housing Providers Association) & President of Corporate Housing Strategies which is the nation's leading provider of sales training and consulting in the furnished corporate housing / midterm rental space. With 30+ years of high level experience in the corporate housing industry, Elaine will tal…
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Today we explore the world of CO-HOSTING with Premier Host Management. Jaina Pallasigui & business partner Paul De Mesa, live in Orange County, CA and originally tried Airbnb arbitrage in their "backyard" but were not successful. This led to a new strategy managing mid-term rentals remotely in Houston, TX, Benton Harbor, MI, Montgomery, AL and San …
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Julie Stoakley runs a full-service brokerage in Austin, Texas, and is founder of Homebase ATX. Julie saw an increasing demand for a new level of Corporate Housing and Relocation Services in the growing city of Austin. Homebase ATX has become one of the most sought-after teams of home relocation service providers and corporate leasing specialists in…
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It’s an xlent xlerated xtralarge xtravaganza as Gabe and Jeff hack and slash their way to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™, which features a slew of emails penned by celebrities under the pseudonym “Alan Peres.” Also discussed: cameras of ’55, cameras of ’24, Dune 2, SB2, SL3, FP4, HP5, Number Six and Zippora Seven! Tune in as we run the numbe…
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Today we have two very influential guests in the mid-term rental space. Jesse Vasquez, creator of the Mid-Term Rental Summit and founder of AirVenture Hosting Co; and Jeff Hurst, CEO of Furnished Finder, the leading marketplace for mid-term rentals with over 200k furnished properties nationwide. https://midtermrentalsummit.com/ In this episode we c…
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While Disney World is popular for vacation rentals, the greater Orlando area is popular for mid-term rentals as well with over 1 million map and property listing page views within the last year and over 2,400 listings on Furnished Finder within 30 miles of Orlando. We will take a glimpse into this market today talking with Chanell Solomon, a succes…
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“Pablo Larraín, the film’s Chilean director, felt [Jackie] Kennedy’s love of beauty was so integral to her character that he requested [Natalie] Portman utter ‘I love beauty’ at some point during the shooting of every scene.” This is absurd, but not as absurd as Episode № 67 of I Dream of Cameras, “Your Extra Time and Your Kiss,” in which we discus…
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Today we will be talking with Sebastien Long, the Founder & CEO of Lodgeur in Houston, Texas. Seb has 45 impeccably designed units on Furnished Finder across 5 complexes, with hundreds in the pipeline. Lodgeur has hosted over 7,000 guests and all his units are primarily used as 30+ day furnished mid-term rentals. In this episode we cover: (Points o…
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Today we talk with Pam Holt, a Chicago native. Pam is a real estate broker, entrepreneur, mom and STR/MTR host for a luxury $15,000/month 4 bedroom rental in the heart of Chicago. Currently, Pam’s main goal is to help investors get up and going in the MTR space with her Happy Host Academy. In this episode we cover: (Points organized in episode orde…
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In today’s episode, we travel to Rochester, New York, to talk with Sally Berry about her 11 property portfolio. Sally will bring a fresh perspective on topics we haven’t discussed yet on our show. We will discuss these 5 topics in detail… Hospitality Advice from Sally’s 25 years in the industry Concentrating Your Portfolio on One Zip Code Creating …
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It’s a voyage to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™ on our Smash Hit Podcast™, but before that there’s talk of the year in photography 1957, the revived Southern California camera show, Jeff’s trip to the Caribbean with a sexy Swede and also his girlfriend, eBay execs sending pig fetuses to their critics, and so much more! Jeff made yet another …
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Today we have the privilege to talk with a touring rock band, Reid & Hayley Cain of Hayley & The Crushers. As they tour the country in their self-customized Dodge Promaster with all their music gear, two dogs and who knows what else; they also bring in passive income through a retro-perfect house hack in California and a fixer upper in Detroit. In …
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Tony Stancato & Jordan Painter have created Book N’ Gather, a Michigan Lakeshore Vacation Rental company and a complimentary educational platform at MichiganShortTermRentals.com which has a podcast, blog & more. These guys have a very successful vacation rental business year around by combining the short-term and mid-term rental strategies. In this…
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Today we talk with Jake Herzig in Houston, Texas. He has a unique style that rolls off the tongue nicely from a marketing perspective and makes someone feel like they are ready for a luxurious, relaxing stay. His theme and website is KingBedsOnly.com. In this episode we cover: (Points organized in episode order) Why Jake has built his business arou…
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You want more and you want it fast? Tune in to Episode № 65 of I Dream of Cameras, “Rebel Rebel,” in which Gabe and Jeff wax rhapsodic about the trash-table treasure Canon EOS Rebel 2000. How did this grubby chunk of plastic capture the hearts of two men devoted to the cult of Leica? Pluck this pod and find out! Also, we call out great cameras NOT …
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Aloha, friends of The Landlord Diaries. Today, we talk with Felicia Miller Johnson in Little Rock, Arkansas, about her house hack and entire home/room rental ventures. Felecia encourages professionals to “Live SMART” which we will discuss today in regards to life & mid-term rentals. In addition, Felicia conducts LinkedIn LIVE work-life video interv…
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