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The Rich Somers Report

The Future of Travel: How Unique Stays Are Changing Real Estate Investing | Issac French E368

The Rich Somers Report

Rich Somers

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

5910 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Shipping container homes. Floating hotels. Golf-course-turned-micro-resorts. This is the future of travel—and it’s rewriting the rules for real estate investors. In this Saturday edition, Rich links up with Isaac French to explore how unique stays are disrupting the hospitality game and creating wildly profitable investment opportunities. From viral builds to zoning loopholes, they break down what’s working right now and how to get in early. They dive into: How one guy turned $20K shipping co...

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Rich Strummers Report where we talk real estate, business, and wealth building, all while keeping it real.

0:07.6

No fluff, no BS.

0:09.3

I hope that you enjoy the show.

0:16.3

Can't remember if I told you about him on the call.

0:18.0

No, I don't think so.

0:19.1

Devin Lerop.

0:20.1

Check out his property.

0:20.9

It's called the Pacific Ben B-B-I-N. It's in Washington State. So he was an engineer, very smart

0:26.2

guy, but 25 years old, I think, this was two or three years ago. He had this dream to create a shipping

0:31.7

container home. So he bought five shipping containers for a few thousand bucks a piece. He did all the engineering himself,

0:37.8

because that was his thing, stacked him on top of each other, so they're like a candle lever,

0:41.9

really cool, bought like a five acre parcel in the middle of the forest in Washington, and then

0:46.9

documented the whole process on social. So an iPhone and a $20 tripod was his equipment,

0:53.5

and took him about a year, grew 1.5 million

0:57.0

followers in 12 months between Instagram and TikTok because people were like entranced by

1:02.6

this story and felt like they were following along.

1:04.4

This was a dream that apparently a lot of people had.

1:06.9

When he opened the calendars, he booked out for almost an entire year within a week and a half from his email list.

1:13.2

Yeah, got to raise those prices.

1:15.0

And he was booking it like a thousand bucks a night almost.

1:18.8

Crazy, crazy, crazy story.

1:20.5

Now he's building all, I mean, opportunities have, as you can imagine, flooded him like you can't believe.

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