The Boostly Spotlight: Garrett Brown from BiggerPockets
The Boostly Podcast
Mark Simpson
5.0 • 302 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to the Episode 801 of Boostly Podcast! 🎙👋
Welcome to the Boostly Spotlight, where we give STR and MTR owners and managers the tools, strategies, and support to win more direct bookings — no fluff, no ads.
In this Boostly Spotlight episode, we shine the spotlight on Garrett Brown from BiggerPockets — diving into his insights on real estate investing, short-term rental growth, and how community-driven education empowers everyday investors to build wealth through property.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, welcome to the Boostly podcast. On this podcast, we give you the tools, the tactics, the training, |
| 0:05.2 | most importantly, the confidence that you can go and get more direct bookings. We do a mini-series on |
| 0:09.5 | this podcast where we interview amazing people from all over the globe. And we've got an amazing |
| 0:15.1 | guest on this episode. This is where we shine the Boostley spotlight. We'll shine it on |
| 0:19.0 | Garrett Brown. He leads the short-term |
| 0:20.8 | rental content for bigger pockets. And most people here will have heard of bigger pockets. But if |
| 0:26.1 | you haven't, wherever you've been, it's one of the world's biggest real estate platforms. |
| 0:31.3 | Garrett has also got experience firsthand with STR. He's an investor. He's a co-founder of a glamping |
| 0:37.3 | business. And he's just |
| 0:38.7 | someone who you need to know about and listen to for the lessons and the tips that we're going to |
| 0:43.2 | pick up from him today on this episode. So welcome along, Garrett. Thank you for joining this today |
| 0:48.1 | on the Boosley podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm happy to teach everybody my mistakes so they can learn |
| 0:53.0 | from them. So it's going to be |
| 0:54.2 | exciting. 100%. So how did you get into short-term rentals? Give us the history. Yeah. So I went to |
| 1:01.6 | school for hotel management actually in college at the Conrad Hilton who started, you know, |
| 1:07.7 | all the Hilton hotels. He went to school in the University of Houston. |
| 1:12.4 | He started his own college there. |
| 1:14.5 | I went down the route and graduated from that college, thinking I was going to do something |
| 1:18.9 | more in the restaurant field, possibly. |
| 1:21.1 | But as time went on, I got further into real estate. |
| 1:24.3 | I became a real estate agent. |
| 1:26.2 | And I was, you know, kind of enamored by the investing side of it. And I found bigger pockets. I started researching everything, learning everything about the investing side and was like, all right, I need to like, I was, I was an agent and I was working with all these investors and they were making so much money on deals. And I was like, okay, I have to learn this because everybody's making all the deals and I'm the one just like help them facilitate them. I started flipping |
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