How to Make Up to $20K/Month with Airbnb Co-Hosting (No Rentals Needed)

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

Entrepreneurship, Education, Investing, Business, How To

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Can’t break into real estate investing? Maybe you don’t have enough money to buy a rental property or the track record of a confident investor. Thankfully, there’s a way to make money in real estate without owning rentals, and it could even help fund your first property. Today’s expert makes $20,000 in monthly cash flow with this strategy—Airbnb co-hosting! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Today, we’re joined by one of BiggerPockets’ resident short-term rental experts, Garrett Brown. Garrett has owned everything from normal long-term rentals to unique stays in hot vacation markets, but one of his favorite “investing” strategies doesn’t even require you to own rental properties. The best part? With some research, people skills, and passion for hospitality, any rookie can build a profitable co-hosting business from scratch in just a few months! Garrett shows you exactly how to do just that in today’s episode, step by step. You’ll learn where to find clients, what to charge for your services, and how to make your fledgling business stand out in 2026. Garrett even shares his go-to tools and software that make co-hosting a breeze! In This Episode We Cover How to build a profitable Airbnb co-hosting business (step by step!) How Garrett scaled to $20,000 in monthly cash flow with this strategy Two proven strategies to find (and land) your very first co-hosting client The number one way to make your co-hosting business stand out in 2026 Must-have AI tools and software that make it easier to run your Airbnb business And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-669 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠advertise@biggerpockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We all want to make money.
0:01.6	And today we have another real estate-related revenue opportunity for rookie investors that doesn't involve buying a property.
0:09.4	Today, we're bringing on the host of the Bigger Pockets, BiggerStays YouTube channel to break down the lucrative world of Airbnb co-hosting.
0:17.7	Gera Brown is going to walk us through his step-by-step blueprint of how you can start
0:21.3	up a co-hosting business and how to be successful. This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast. I'm
0:31.6	Ashley Care. And I'm Tony J. Robinson. Before we welcome, Garrett, I wanted to share today's
0:36.9	sponsor in one of the tools I
0:38.6	use for my own real estate investing. They say real estate is passive income, but if you spend a Sunday
0:43.9	night buried in spreadsheets, you know better. We hear it from investors all the time, spending
0:48.9	hours every month sorting through receipts and bank transactions trying to guess if you're making any money.
0:55.3	And when tax season hits, it's like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded.
0:59.8	That's where Baselain comes in, Bigger Pocket's official banking platform.
1:03.4	It takes every rent payment and expense to the right property and a Schedule E category as you bank.
1:10.1	So you get tax ready financial reports in real time, not at the end of the year.
1:14.7	You can instantly see how each unit is performing when you're making money and losing money and make changes while it still counts.
1:22.3	Head over to baselane.com slash bigger pockets to start protecting your profits and get a special $100
1:28.8	bonus when you sign up. Well, Garrett, welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast.
1:33.1	Man, thanks for jumping on to join us today.
1:34.6	Always happy to jump on and talk, talk anything real estate related that we can talk about.
1:39.6	Garrett, we're here today to talk about co-hosting. And I think before we get too deep into the
1:43.7	weeds, for all of our Rikis who may not be familiar with the about co-hosting. And I think before we get too deep into the weeds,
1:49.7	for all of our rickies who may not be familiar with the phrase co-hosting, can you just define it for us? What does it mean to co-host as an Airbnb? Sure. So Airbnb kind of popularize and
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