So welcome along to another behind the host episode and I'm really overjoyed today to have Amanda

Williams. So Amanda Williams is better known as Amanda the Traveling Railtor. She's a private

money lender. She's bought and sold homes in all different models including lease options.

She's licensed realtor and serving buyers and sellers and investors since 2013. She's the founder

of CarolinaFurnishedRentals.com. She specialises in midterm stays and this is something which I think

a lot of people listening in are going to be really interested in is how they get midterm stays.

A lot of the time we're talking about short-term stays. She's also now diving into health and well-being

retreats and all of this is based in Mexico and on top of that she's also a best-selling author

which is amazing. There's so much there. So thank you Amanda and welcome along. Thanks for joining

me today. Thank you so much for having me and you are too. So we're all authors together. It's

not exciting. Brilliant isn't it? It's a bit of a change. We were saying we all met up in London

last week for the book launch and we were saying that you guys across there have all got to get

together at some stage and really celebrate this because there's massive things. So thank you so

much for joining us. What we're going to do today for those of you listening. We're going to dive

into Amanda's sort of midterm rental business. We're also going to talk about opportunities and

just how you can create passive income through short-term rentals. So Amanda just introduce

yourself and tell us a bit about your story about how you got started in this space. Yeah absolutely

well thank you did a great job. Yeah we got started. We had long-term rental portfolios and my

dad got sick. So we took him down to Mexico for some cancer therapies down there alternative

treatment therapies and so instead of letting our house sit empty we threw it on Airbnb just

thinking hey we might be able to make a little bit of money to help pay for this expense of going

down to Mexico and within the first two weeks we actually made more money. It paid our entire

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