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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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We’re diving deep into the world of short-term rentals—Airbnbs, vacation properties, and everything in between. Everything from market saturation, competition from hotels, bad reviews, regulatory threats, operational pit falls, and what Quentin West believes about the long-term viability of this model. Quentin has built a sizable portfolio of short-term rentals across multiple markets. He’s seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of this business model—and today, he’s pulling back the curtain to share the lessons he’s learned the hard way.
Connect with Quentin: IG @qdealshomes
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Highlights:
3:00 - Quentin' Creative Hustle
5:45 - Real Numbers Behind STR Arbitrate
11:00 - Scalable Low-Capital Model
18:00 - Golden Triangle Method
32:00 - Mitigating Platform Risk
37:00 - Avoiding Failure
Quote: “I went from borrowing quarters from my kids’ piggy bank to rebuilding a six-figure business by optimizing my listings—one change at a time.”
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0:21.7 | This is the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast. |
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0:30.6 | Hey guys, Kevin Bup here, and I want to welcome me to another episode of the Real Estate |
0:34.1 | Investing for Cashflow podcast. |
0:35.6 | We're missions to help you build and maintain massive amounts of cash flow through income producing real estate investments. |
0:42.1 | Now, our guest for this week show is real estate vacation rental expert Quentin West. |
0:46.3 | Now, today we're going to be diving deep into the world of short-term rentals. You guys, |
0:50.4 | Airbnb's vacation properties, VRBO, and really everything in between, right? |
0:55.4 | Like you guys know the space, understand it. |
0:57.4 | But we're not just here to talk about, you know, how great the returns can be. |
1:01.6 | We're going to dive a little deeper, in fact, quite a bit deeper. |
1:04.8 | And we're going to shy away from, you know, returns and things and all that. |
1:07.8 | We're going to talk about everything, you some of the bad stuff right some of the challenges that that we all face as business owners you know things like |
1:14.1 | market saturation competition from hotels bad reviews you know what does that mean for |
1:19.6 | for someone that owns Airbnbs all the way down to like regulatory threats like with the ever |
1:24.7 | changing environment lots of markets have put restrictions in place on short-term rentals. |
1:29.8 | There's various operational pitfalls and, you know, really I just hopefully will get a broad perspective from |
1:35.5 | Quentin as to, you know, how he feels about the long-term viability of the, you know, STR, short-term rental model. |
1:41.9 | Now Quentin has, he's built a sizable portfolio of short-term rentals across multiple |
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