Over the past few days, been reading a lot about “Airbnb arbitrage.” It works like this:
You lease a house or an apartment.
You then put it up on Airbnb, with the landlord’s blessing (you might have to try a few landlords before finding one who’ll agree to it).
You outsource all the Airbnb work like cleaning and handling communications…
You pay your lease…
And you keep the difference.
In a typical case, with a couple of hours of work a month and $2k of startup capital, you can create $1k-$2k cash flow each month (the Airbnb earnings are typically 2x-3x what the rent is).
And since it requires practically no work, you can rinse and repeat with a second property, and a third, and fourth. I’ve read case studies of people who have a dozen or more of such cash-cow properties, none of which they own.
I bring this up for two reasons.
First, you might find it interesting to investigate Airbnb arbitrage yourself. It seems like a genuine opportunity right now if you get the details right. But as with all arbitrage, it won’t be around forever.
Second, I find this Airbnb arbitrage kind of inspiring.
I’ve read stories of seasoned property investors who are saying, “I can’t believe how well this works.”
In their mind, there’s no comparison to the traditional route of taking out a mortgage for $300k, buying a house, finding long term tenants, all for a couple hundo a month.
With the Airbnb scheme, you get about 10x the cash flow, with 1/100th of the risk, and you can repeat as many times as you want.
Same thing if you’re a wannabe entrepreneur and your goal is to create “passive income.”
The standard route to this utopia is to create an online business.
And it’s definitely possible.
But it’s unlikely that you’d be collecting $5k a month within 2 months, which is what many of the Airbnb arbitrage people seem to accomplish.
And the point of all this, to me at least, is the power of a change in perspective.
The right change of perspective opens up incredible opportunities, and eliminates a lot of struggle and hard work.
Even if you’re not interested in starting your own Airbnb empire, I think this is something valuable to keep in mind.
Anyways, the reason I’ve been doing all this reading about Airbnb arbitrage is because I’m rewriting a lead for a VSL. The VSL sells a course, which lays out all the details about how to do this Airbnb stuff successfully.
I won’t try to sell you on the course itself.
I won’t even try to sell you on hiring me to write a VSL for you. But if you want some advertorial knowledge, which you could use to create traffic that leads to a VSL, then check out the following: