There's a larger number of short-term rental hosts that are professionalizing in the industry,

and a battle that they're fighting, I think, fairly quietly is on how do they get shipped those bookings to other sites like Burboo or can they book directly?

I'm Ricky Mulvey and that's Bigger Pocket's CEO Scott Trench.

He leads a company that aims at

democratizing real estate investing. Scott is also the co-host of the

Bigger Pocket's Money Podcast and today's show is an edited recording of our

collaborative live event with them at the Denver Press Club out here in

Colorado. Mary Long hosted Scott and Motley full analyst Alicia Alfieri for a look at both

sides of Airbnb is a stock and as a real estate investment.

Scott, you and we were all talking beforehand and you said that you had some you had a good overview of

kind of like the market sentiment and how investors have have been feeling

about short-term rentals over the past couple of years so you want to kick us

off by giving us a sense of what that looks like.

Yeah, sure. So in the real estate investor community in 2019, nobody was interested in

short-term rentals. We pulled our audience and said, what's the strategy you're going to pursue?

5% of them said they were interested in short-term

rentals. That carried through to December of 2020 and in 2021 and exploded. 20% of

our members became interested in short-term rental investing.

That jumped to 23 or 24% by the next year,

and it's receded back to about 18% of our audience

in the last year, and I bet you when we put on the poll at the end of this year,

we're going to see it in the low teens.

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