hello youtube this is richard founder short-term rental secrets.com and
Airbnb super host today's video is one I feel we should have made a long time ago
because I'm asked all the time and that is why do I enjoy being a host so much
so I've come together with a few ideas and the principle number one reason that
I do this is actually at the very end so stay tuned the first reason is I've
always found hospitality really fun and rewarding I always have I love hosting
dinner parties having outdoor barbecues having people over for the weekend I
like having a good time I like to include people in that good time I like
to see people having a good time and it started at an early age I started as a
waiter after graduating college I did it really well and I loved making people's
night and hosting people in my home using Airbnb or home away is really just
an extension of that the second reason is I'm part of a community and it's much
bigger than just me it's really cool that people from all over the world come
and stay at my home and it's just a totally different lens not necessarily
better or worse than a hotel but in many cases there aren't hotels in these
little communities and so I'm introducing people to something that
they wouldn't get otherwise and they absolutely love it and I can't tell you
how rewarding it is when I get comments talking about lifelong memories my
family and I really enjoyed this and we felt like locals and it's hard to
verbalize but it's really impactful and I thoroughly enjoy it we're also
building this community in and around this YouTube channel which is incredibly
cool and it doesn't seem like this happens in other businesses or other
industries so there's something about people that like hosting that want to
get better at their trade and their crafts want to share want to give
comments and feedback and I can't tell you how much I'm actually enjoying
spearheading this channel and love all of your involvement to encourage you to
keep doing what you're doing and do it more
so the third reason is the lifestyle look if it's no surprise that we all
live in the world is the gig economy people have side gigs whether you're a
freelancer you do content on the side or whatever this Airbnb side gig for me is
become a primary gig it's really big but it also affords me a lot of the benefits
that people have with side gig like flexibility and time off in fact I'm
taking six weeks off the summer and I'm going to travel to India and Singapore
and Bali and Europe and I can't wait to do that staying at Airbnb is and so on
but I couldn't do this if I worked a standard you know job that required me
to check into an office space so the flexibility and the lifestyle that
having air B&B properties for me is amazing I just need a Wi-Fi internet
connection communicate with my cleaning teams and supervise it and I can be
pretty much anywhere in the world I recognize that no matter how well I
did no matter how much I saved in my 401k I'm a fit guy and active guy I hope
to live to a hundred or so I wouldn't have enough money for retirement and
therefore I'd be working longer and longer and I just didn't see that as
being a very bright future certainly not the way that I wanted to live my later
years and so I started to think about how I could diversify some of my income
how I can have some side gig that was more passive that would run in the
background and really help me figure out my retirement and so I started to invest
in single-family homes in vacation locations places that I wanted to spend
more time and retire and travel to and I started buying these homes and listing
them on Airbnb and VRBO and so on helping to pay if not fully pay the
mortgage and in 15 years I'm going to own these properties outright and all of
the income that is generated from the property is basically passive income
that will help me retire fully and travel the world and travel to these
different places and so I'm now calling it my 15 year plan and it's my number
one reason I'm about I don't know I think about ten years away from owning
several properties outright and I just can't wait every month we get closer and
closer and closer and then I own these babies outright and I love doing what
I'm doing but it's really to give me a wonderful lifestyle and
also diversification and that's my 15-year plan a my number one reason why
I love hosting on Airbnb and home away so look there's a lot of really
compelling reasons and every one is a personal reason you know personally I
love being involved with this channel and reading the comments and the
feedback and knowing that this may change other people's lives as much as
it's changed my life and this has literally changed my life my outlook on
my life in my future life and if I can share this content with you and
encourage you to do so and be helpful I can't get enough of it if you haven't
liked this video please do so now we'd really appreciate it and if you haven't
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ahead and do that now and until next time happy hosting thank you very much
you