Is Airbnb Still Worth It in 2025? Honest Breakdown with Victor Zeledón
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jannese is joined by Victor Zeledón (@ourjourneywithless) a husband, dad, and Airbnb mentor who proves you don’t need six figures, a trust fund, or a fancy investing background to build wealth through real estate.
Victor started with what most of us already have: a home, two extra rooms, and a need to build an emergency fund. Fast forward seven years and those two rooms turned into five cash-flowing rentals, a fully retired wife, homes in multiple states, and a roadmap to financial freedom.
This convo is packed with gems, game-changing strategies, and the kind of transparency that our comunidad NEEDS to hear — because real estate is not “just for other people.” It’s for us, too.
What We Get Into
- 04:30 — Who’s actually renting rooms on Airbnb? (It’s not who you think!)
- 05:50 — How they scaled from 1 room to 5 properties.
- 06:40 — The real talk on hosting strangers: Safety, locks, boundaries, and vibes.
- 08:15 — Airbnb vs. traditional renting: Why Airbnb was the wealth-building accelerator.
- 09:20 — The Airbnb landscape in 2025: Regulations, fees, and why boring listings get no love.
- 13:00 — Wild host lessons: What every new host should prepare for (yes, including tias who leave surprises).
- 14:30 — Emergency funds + financial safety nets: How to protect your pockets.
- 16:20 — Is Airbnb still worth it today? Victor breaks it down.
- 17:30 — Why they bought in Waco & Tulsa: Out-of-state investing made simple.
- 19:10 — How they bought a house in Tulsa with $0 out-of-pocket.
- 20:40 — How to manage rentals remotely without losing your mind.
- 24:00 — The family vision: From paying off debt → replacing his wife’s income → full financial freedom.
- 26:00 — How Victor mentors new Airbnb hosts for FREE through the Airbnb Ambassador Program.
Top Takeaways
- Start where you are. A spare room can be your entry point into real estate — not a barrier.
- Airbnb hosting is work, but the income potential is REAL. Many hosts earn 2–3x a traditional rental.
- 2025 is still a viable year to invest, especially if you explore mid-term rentals and lower-cost markets.
About Our Guest
Follow Victor: @ourjourneywithless
He offers free Airbnb mentorship in English & Spanish through the Airbnb Ambassador Program.
Links Mentioned
- Free Financial Guide: courses.yoquierodineropodcast.com
- Order Financially Lit!: FinanciallyLitBook.com
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| 0:39.4 | What would you tell somebody when real estate is crazy, mortgage rates are crap, maybe people |
| 0:47.0 | aren't traveling as much, is it still a good time to like start a Reambe business. |
| 0:54.3 | It's always a good time, right, to own real estate or to, or even if you, if you don't have |
| 1:00.0 | a lot of funds or if you're just thinking about it, I would say starting your house. |
| 1:04.8 | So obviously real estate is expensive. |
| 1:07.3 | I live in Southern California, Southern California. |
| 1:09.8 | Home prices are really expensive. And this is why we decided to invest out of state. |
| 1:16.6 | Okay, so tell me more. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, two of our rentals are, our three of the rentals are out of state. We have two in Texas, Waco, Texas, and one in Tulsa, Oklahoma. So they are a lot cheaper, maybe even like a third of what it would |
| 1:29.0 | cost here in California. You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoero, a personal finance podcast for |
| 1:37.6 | the modern Latina. I'm your host, Janice Torres, award-winning Latina personal finance expert. |
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