Real Estate Investing and Short-term Rentals

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The guest discusses their journey from working at a tech company to getting interested in real estate, focusing on short-term rentals. They share their experiences with poorly managed Airbnb properties and their desire to improve on the operation of such properties. The chapter also highlights their decision to pursue entrepreneurship in the real estate industry.

Patrick Donley (@JPatrickDonley) sits down with Sief Khafagi to learn all about how his company, Techvestor, makes investing in Airbnbs simple, passive, and profitable. You’ll learn about his early career at Facebook, how he’s gone about building a vertically integrated short term rental company, what gives Techvestor their competitive advantage, and what trends Sief is anticipating in the STR market.

Sief is an ex techie turned real estate investor who has helped thousands diversify into real estate after spending nearly 5 years at Facebook. He’s syndicated acquisitions totaling more than $100M while designing & developing more than 125+ properties. Today, he’s the founder of Techvestor, which helps real estate investors and busy professionals passively invest in the emerging asset class of short term rentals (aka Airbnbs).

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:34 - How Sief was working at Facebook and developed an interest in real estate.

03:32 - How working remotely all over the world connected him to the Airbnb world.

03:54 - Why he choose against pursuing a long term rental strategy.

04:50 - What his early side hustles as a teenager were.

07:20 - How he built a Facebook team of over 1000 and applied those skills in building Techvestor.

07:31 - How the strategy for Techvestor came about.

09:26 - What the biggest challenges were in building Techvestor.

11:02 - What gave him the courage to start a new venture.

16:46 - How he found great people to join the team at Techvestor.

19:25 - How Techvestor makes investing in Airbnbs simple, passive, and profitable.

20:23 - How they use data analytics to find the best properties to add to their portfolio.

22:39 - Why they were forced to vertically integrate.

24:42 - How to amenitize Airbnb properties.

25:21 - How they get development-like returns without taking on development-like risks.

32:16 - Why having fixed rate debt is an advantage for them.

33:49 - What Techvestor’s exit strategy looks like.

37:35 - What are the trends Sief is seeing in the Airbnb space.

41:34 - What are some of the reasons they generate higher returns.

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