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The Mike Litton Experience

How Vince Villani Built a 40-Unit Airbnb Empire in 2 Years Without Owning Property

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, Mike sits down with entrepreneur and real estate investor Vince Villani — a former medical device sales rep who built a thriving 40-unit Airbnb empire in just two years using the rental arbitrage model — and without owning a single property. Vince breaks down how he […]

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0:00.0

Sales, I think, is a very humbling experience.

0:05.8

It's a very humbling experience because you realize very quickly how many things you suck at, right?

0:12.1

And I went immediately into medical device sales, which is all in the field in person.

0:19.4

And I'm dealing with surgeons like I'm speaking with

0:22.0

physicians so it wasn't like this thing where I was like you know I was like a car

0:26.6

nothing against car salesman I'm just saying like it wasn't like I was in a position where I

0:30.7

could just kind of like say whatever I want there are people who are listening to this or

0:33.5

thinking about starting something they're doing something and they're sort of resident

0:37.1

reticent right they're just kind of sitting back and sort of collecting data and that kind

0:41.6

of thing. You guys decide to go out and start this coaching company. Talk a little bit about

0:48.0

the mindset behind that. Yeah. I'll be honest, Mike, this business model is one of the lowest risk, lowest barrier

0:56.3

to entry business models out there for anybody looking to generate five to 10k a month,

1:03.1

start an online business that can be managed completely remotely, and who's always wanted

1:07.9

to get in real estate but didn't have the capital. And I'm not just saying that.

1:15.9

So what we have every landlord or property owner do is sign an addendum with us.

1:22.4

So this is an additional document on top of the lease that says, hey, you know that I'm running this as a short term rental.

1:24.4

Right.

1:24.6

So like I have legal permission to do this.

1:26.4

But on top of that, I include terminology in that addendum that says if, for whatever reason, legally, I no longer

1:35.4

have the capability to do this, the lease is void, right? Did you know there's a technology that's

1:41.2

actually an app on your phone that uses sound waves to tell your brain

1:45.2

what you want your brain to do. We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Mike Lidden

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