I interviewed Airbnb in January.

They said, no thanks.

But as soon as they went in there, I was like, oh, there's something different about this, this accounting team, this company. So I stayed in touch. They hired me a few months later in the same department, different jobs. A short-term rental market softened a little bit in the last 12 months. Would you agree with that? And how do you approach that? There's 100 decisions to be a successful Airbnb host. as you're mentioning, there's 50 bullet points.

There's 100 of those.

The hosts that do the most are going to be a successful Airbnb host. As you're mentioning, there's 50 bullet points.

There's a hundred of those.

The hosts that do the most are going to be the most successful.

It's not that anyone is that hard or anyone is going to make you successful.

Welcome everybody to another Main Street business podcast where I get to interview an entrepreneur and influencer on the streets of Main Street in America.

I love it.

Although Daniel here in a moment, you'll find out is living abroad at the moment.

But Daniel has written the book.

Oh, my gosh, there's so many.

Optimizer, B&B, and he has a new book out, profitable properties.

Daniel used to work at Airbnb and then went rogue and frequent.

I love it. Started teaching everybody about how to optimize their short-term rental. And he goes into vacation rentals with or within

or with, not within Airbnb system. And Daniel, it's just an honor. I have so much to talk to you about.

I'm just glad you're here. Thank you so much for being here. I'm glad to be here. And I haven't been looking forward to a podcast in as much as this one. I think we scheduled it two months ago. And so I'm glad it's finally come. It's always been on my calendar. I barely ever schedule anything two months in advance. So I equally myself have

been looking forward to it. And I was born and raised in California. But now I do live abroad.

Okay. Well, I love it. And here's the deal. For many of you that are followers of mine,

and you may have just got onto this podcast today because you're an Airbnb or short-term rental investor and you're a fan of Daniel. Maybe you're a fan of mine. Let me just put it in context. The Airbnb are, when I say Airbnb, I mean short-term rental. I know there's so many different platforms, but I'll try to stick to short-term rentals. Short-term rentals are such a phenomenal tax strategy right now in the U.S. tax code. There's a loophole there that's very powerful. You don't have to be a real estate professional and take advantage of it. Many of you have seen other podcast and recording some buying on that. And it's just such good wealth building, hard asset, real estate, cash flow. You can use arbitrage. You can buy a property. There's so much there to unpack on the acquisition and tax planning. But at the end of the day, if you go down this path, you've got to manage it thing. You got to know what you're doing. You got to make it successful because we don't want to throw good money at bad and that's where Daniel comes in. I've got his book dog-eared.

This morning,

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