The Comfy Living Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to The Comfy Living Podcast, where you'll learn how to become a better entrepreneur in the short-term rental space with Airbnb. Listen in as we interview our expert colleagues and take advantage of their years of experience that will help you take your rentals to a whole new level.
In this episode Josh and Norman discuss the current situation of things in the STR industry and give tips to newbies on how to navigate the Industry.
On today's episode, Norman and Joshua interview Derrick Barker. Derrick is a successful entrepreneur, the CEO of Nectar ''a marketplace for real estate cash flow'', a real estate investor who works in the short term real estate space. Derrick loves spending time with his family.
In this Interview, he discusses his humble beginning into the short term rental space, real estate and how you can storm the STR with little or no capital.
You can connect with Derrick via his website: mynectar.co and email: derrick@mynectar.com.
For our short term rental operators who apply with Nectar make sure to use promo code: COMFY$ and receive $100 amazon card if successfully approved.
On today's episode, Norman explains everything about scaling a business. He describes what scaling is, how it works and also he explains the intricacies of scaling a business especially an STR business.
On this episode Norman discusses the importance of networking, as he explains it’s advantages and importance. He also states the group of people that every STR business owner must network with. This is a very brief and highly educational episode.
On today’s episode Norman talks about how STR business owners can automate their operations for an easy and a better work flow, by highlighting how Zapier can facilitate the process and stating the numerous ways it can be used to increase productivity.
Josh and Norman discuss different systems and processes that could be adopted to improve the operations of the short-term rental business. They relate how the different tools and integrations have helped generate valuable metrics and insights for driving business growth.
In this episode Josh and Norman discuss their participation in the STR acceleration program, the need to review the growth of their business and the importance of mentorship.
They also discuss the importance of having a great sales technique and how the cooperate housing industry should be approached in 2021.
John Kroeger (Co-founder Cream City Executive Stays) and Daniel Cruz (CEO, Washbnb) join Norman to discuss how hosts can solve the cleaning, particularly laundry, issues as they scale their STR business. They share the importance of laundry in the STR industry and how they are building laundry services for hosts. You can reach John and Daniel with their details below:
John Kroeger - Cream City Executive Stays
https://www.creamcityexecutivestays.com/ ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kroeger/
Daniel Cruz:
https://www.washbnb.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/washbnb/ ; https://www.instagram.com/washbnb/
Joshua and Norman interview Micheal Ige, a pharmacist by day that stormed the STR industry shortly after lockdown. In this interview they discuss diverse aspects of his business, and how he was able to acquire 10 units within a short period of time.
you can find Micheal via his: Instagram page ; bookbiggerspace Facebook page; bookbiggerspace His personal Instagram account ; verygood_boy_ website; www.bookbiggerspace.com His airbnb listing ; https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/48020092?source_impression_id=p3_1616030585_4%2BA8%2Fyvht%2FGNETUq
Today, Josh and Norman discuss different systems and processes that could be adopted to improve the operations of the short-term rental business. They relate how the different tools and integrations have helped generate valuable metrics and insights for driving business growth.
In today's episode, Josh and Norman will discuss updates on their corporate housing company ; Comfy Living Arrangements. They talk about how they were successful in hiring their VAs, they discuss the book ''2 Second Lean'' by Paul A. Akers and how they plan on implementing the Lean Culture with the team towards the growth of the business.
Joshua and Norman interview Tereance James of LayLeaux. He is 23 years old, who graduated from college, worked as a project manager for a short period of time and quit his job to be a full-time short term rental operator.
In this interview we discuss aspects of his business, and how he was able to 3x his real estate portfolio using short term rentals.
His Airbnb listing: airbnb.com/h/medcenterapt
Website: https://layleaux.com/about/
In todays episode, Josh and Norman will discuss their current updates on their Corporate housing company: Comfy Living Arrangements. They talk about the process of hiring their first set of VAs and the struggles with ensuring they hire the right candidate. In addition, they talk about how they are managing their time while working a 9 to 5.
Today we have a dynamic episode. Norman interviews Ashok Warrier. He is former touring professional musician who has released several albums, and performed in many projects for Chicago to New York.
He decided to retire his music career and rent out his first floor of his condo in Chicago to make some extra money. Then after relocating to Houston turned the profits of his condo into a full on arbitrage Airbnb business with his 2 best friends and business partners. Currently, Ashok has 12 apartments in their portfolio and is looking to expand to 30 by the end of 2021.
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45594926
Teonna Cruse is the owner of At Home Corporate Housing, LLC. She is a realtor based out of Atlanta, GA. Today we interview her to discuss how she got started in Short term rentals and how she grew her portfolio in a few months. Below are the links to her Airbnb units:
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/47760296
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/47307581
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/47288009
Today we are interviewing Joel Eshun. Joel is a new real estate investor who works in the short term real estate space. Joel is also a software engineer in the day time when not working in real estate. He loves to travel, learn about history and spending time with family.
Today we will discuss his humble beginning into the short term rental space and we will discuss how he plans to utilize platforms such as Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway to his advantage to create baecation stays.
On today's show we are introducing the two co-host of this episode: Joshua Adegboye and Norman Hamilton. The two of them founded Comfy Living Arrangements, a short term rental housing provider based in Houston, TX. They will talk about how the two met each other and why they decided to create a podcast.