686: Waiter to Glamping Millionaire: How to Build a Six-Figure Glamping Business

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What if you could turn 10 acres of rural land into a million-dollar hospitality empire while working a full-time job? Garrett Brown from Cameron Ranch Glamping strategically "land hacked" his way into a multi-six-figure operation that's now worth $1.5 million and generates nearly $100,000 per year from a single geodome. By day, he teaches short-term rentals at BiggerPockets, but his real wealth-building happens through his glamping side hustle with $400+ nightly rates without the overhead of a traditional hotel. Listen to Episode 686 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: How "land hacking" lets you get started with minimal down payment The 60-30-10 rule for choosing profitable glamping locations Why 80% of his bookings come directly through social media (not Airbnb) Full Show Notes: Waiter to Glamping Millionaire: How to Build a Six-Figure Glamping Business New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mint Mobile⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Indeed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OpenPhone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shopify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!

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0:00.0	From a waiter to glamping millionaire.
0:04.4	What's up? What's up? Nick Loper here.
0:06.0	Welcome to The Side Hustle show where we've been sharing legit ways to make extra money since 2013.
0:12.1	Today's guest took a unique land hacking approach to build both cash flow and life-changing wealth by tapping into the glamping trend. This is glamorous camping for those
0:23.3	uninitiated. And for the day job, he teaches short-term rentals at bigger pockets. But on the side,
0:28.2	he runs a multi-six-figure glamping operation from Cameron Ranchglamping.com, Garrett Brown. Welcome to
0:35.4	the Side Ussel Show. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for having me.
0:38.6	Me too. This is a new topic in the 670-plus episodes of the show. So stick around. I'm going to be
0:45.3	learning right alongside the audience. We're covering how you can get started with this side hustle,
0:50.4	how some of these can command four-star hotel types of rates without the four-star
0:55.5	startup costs, the marketing best practices, the mistakes to avoid, all that stuff.
1:00.2	But Cameron Ranch doesn't happen by accident.
1:02.9	You see this trend and say, look, I got to get in on this.
1:06.9	I got to figure out a way to take advantage of that.
1:08.7	And before you can do that, you need some acreage.
1:10.5	You need some land. So talk me through the initial phases here. So I went all in, for a lack of better words, into the glamping side because I was able to get this land with something called land hacking is what I call it. In the bigger pockets community, we've coined the term house hacking, which is essentially where you buy a
1:28.3	property with, you know, four, five, six bedrooms, maybe three bedrooms, and you've rent out
1:33.4	those rooms to either, you know, roommates or friends or, you know, tenants or whatever, whatever you
1:39.7	want to call them. And then they're helping you pay down the mortgage while you're almost
1:43.8	essentially living for free. So I was like, why could I not take that same concept? call them, and then they're helping you pay down the mortgage while you're almost essentially
1:44.2	living for free. So I was like, why could I not take that same concept and do this with,
1:51.4	you know, maybe some cabins and call it land hacking? So I found a property in a, I'm in
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