Why I’m Selling All My Airbnbs: The Harsh Truth About Short-Term Rentals in 2025
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A once-profitable approach is now facing oversaturation, rising costs, and tighter regulations. Investors should reassess before committing to outdated strategies.
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About Ryan Pineda:
Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.
Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.
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| 0:00.0 | Airbnb is dying, and I'm going to share with you what I believe is the next great real estate |
| 0:03.3 | investment strategy to help you build cash flow and passive income. Now, for those you don't know, |
| 0:08.8 | I've made a ton of videos over the years about how successful Airbnb has been for my investing |
| 0:14.0 | career. I actually got started doing it back in 2017. This was way before it became as popular as it |
| 0:20.7 | is today. I mean, I remember back then, people |
| 0:23.2 | were still kind of skeptical about staying at other people's houses. Now it's very normal. It's |
| 0:28.1 | very mainstream. And so times have changed dramatically. And back then, the first property |
| 0:33.5 | ever bought was in Big Bear, California. I paid $200,000 for it, and my mortgage was like |
| 0:39.0 | $1,300 at the time, and it rented for $4,000 per month. And so with that, I'm like, man, this is |
| 0:46.4 | the craziest investment ever. I mean, even when you account for the cleaners, the taxes, the Airbnb fees, |
| 0:53.2 | I mean, I was still netting over a thousand bucks a month in |
| 0:56.7 | cash flow. And it really wasn't hard to manage. You know, I was all in on Airbnb in 2017. |
| 1:01.8 | I ended up buying another one later that year. I ended up buying a few more in 2018, bought more in |
| 1:06.8 | 2019. And I just kept buying them. And by then, I probably had accumulated about 10 properties |
| 1:12.4 | in Big Bear, California alone. And these properties were generating me over half a million |
| 1:17.1 | dollars a year in revenue across those Airbnbs. Now, at this point, I'm like, dude, Airbnb's great. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm going to just keep building up these properties as time goes on. This is kind of, |
| 1:27.3 | kind of be my retirement account, whatever you want to call it. And, you know, it was awesome. |
| 1:31.9 | But a lot of things started to change. The first is that Airbnb as a whole got more popular. |
| 1:37.9 | And so once Airbnb got more popular, that meant that there was more properties coming on the market. |
| 1:43.2 | And so instead of rents going up like |
| 1:45.5 | they normally do with, you know, most kind of real estate investments, rents kind of just flatlined |
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