Welcome to The Landlord Diaries, the ultimate podcast for real estate investors looking to maximize their returns and simplify their landlord journey. In this episode, we're thrilled to have Eric Greenstein, a seasoned real estate investor and the founder of LikeMinded, a thriving real estate investment group.
Eric owns two prime properties in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida—a long-term rental and a mid-term rental listed on Furnished Finder. For the past two years, he has navigated the seasonal ebb and flow by renting his property as a whole or by individual rooms.
In this episode, we dive deep into Eric's real estate journey, uncovering valuable insights and actionable strategies.
Episode Highlights:
0:00 - Welcome to The Landlord Diaries
2:45 - Discovering a passion for real estate and chasing the American dream
4:00 - Purchasing a waterfront single-family home in Cape Coral, FL
4:50 - Investing in a duplex for mid-term rentals
5:30 - Establishing impactful real estate meetups in your community
7:00 - Setting attainable real estate goals
9:05 - Navigating mid-term rentals: entire units vs. room rentals
12:00 - Simplifying the landlording process
13:45 - Understanding diverse mid-term rental tenant types
17:45 - Best practices for renting by the bed or room
19:10 - Utilizing Furnished Finder Tenant Leads to explore MTR tenant types
21:45 - Leveraging video tours for tenant communication via Furnished Finder
24:50 - Capitalizing on Furnished Finder's year-round demand
26:15 - Essential tenant screening questions for bed or room rentals
26:30 - Peace of mind through KeyCheck for mid-term rental hosts
28:50 - Host Kelly Bailey shares her room rental experiences
31:55 - Exploring the revenue potential of mid-term rentals
33:50 - Meeting market needs to unlock additional revenue opportunities
Episode 107 Transcript
Welcome to The Landlord Diaries, where we talk about midterm rentals and the opportunities behind them. We'll share landlord stories, talk about maximizing investment potential, and discuss how to live the very best landlord life. This podcast is proudly brought to you by Furnished Finder, the leader and largest online marketplace for midterm rentals.
Remember to like and subscribe if you enjoy our content. Hey. Hey everybody. It is your host team from The Landlord Diaries coming to you every week with brand new episodes all around the country about midterm rental hosts on Furnished Finder. I'm Kelly Bailey and my co-host Katie Lyon. We're both midterm rental investors ourselves, and we work for the Furnished Finder marketing team.
Katie, what do you wanna tell us about today's exciting episode? Yeah, Eric is great. He has two properties down in Florida. One of them he used to use as a short-term rental, but then he discovered midterm rentals, completely pivoted, and he rents them out by the room. And he has a really interesting audience that he's discovered that I can't wait for everybody to hear about.
So he's got some great tips on that. And he's also discovered a way to bring in some extra revenue that was very creative. And we talk about some tips about really getting to know your market and ways that you can do that and those ways to get your market are all things that are going to add to your revenue.
So this is a great one. And we hope everybody enjoys and please. Remember to share with a friend or another midterm rental landlord that might be interested.
Eric Greenstein owns two properties in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A long-term rental and a midterm rental. He's listed on Furnished Finder for about two years now, depending on the season. He's rented this home as an entire unit or by the room. Eric is founder of a real estate investment group called Like-Minded.
Eric, thanks for joining us today. How are you? I'm well. I'm well. Thank you so much for having me. Really appreciate it. Awesome. Yes sir. Thanks for joining us. We love to tell stories from all around the country, so if you are looking through our list and there's a state we haven't hit yet, reach out to me.
I'm looking for at least one guest from every state and I think we've covered what do you, what's your guest Katie? How many think we've covered 20, 30 states. What do you think? I'm gonna say 25. 'cause there's just, there's some still some random states out there oh yes, there's some hard ones to get, but.
I think this is a it's a fun goal for us. It is for sure. So Eric, let's start with, what led you to be passionate about real estate, investing in your own properties, and then also starting like-minded. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you again, thank you for having me on. Real estate has always, there's always been an attraction to it, right?
I don't know where it really came from, but. I believe just the idea of owning a piece of land, right? Of owning a property, of owning the American dream, right? Buying something to live in was always a thing, right? I have always love the idea of property, but of actually renting, right?
I, it randomly in, in college, right? I was like, oh man. I'm renting this house with two other people, right? Two of my friends, and we're basically renting each room out, right? I'm like, what? What if I just buy the property and then rent it out to my friends? Of course I didn't have enough money then, but it was always embedded in my brain that I'm like, oh, that guy to be such a good idea.
Fast forwarding to 2017 market was a little on the lower end. Looking back at it, and in my area, I was like, I want to expand. I want to buy something a little less expensive. I took a chance about two hours away from me in Cape Coral, Florida.
Purchased a single family home on the water. Really awesome place. Direct access to the Gulf. Really good price and then listed it as a short term rental and learned from there. I had no idea what I was doing two hours away. What am I thinking? Then? I have all these tools and everything to, to I guess manage it properly.
But yeah, I owned that for a little bit and then went straight into duplex and figuring out that I can actually buy a duplex. I didn't know that. I thought it was. For someone else, not me. So as I figured that out then I got into, the midterm. And here we are absolutely love it.
It's a very creative way of generating revenue income every month on your properties. And I'm sure we'll talk about more and more on this episode of how other additional ways, right? I believe I brought up to you, Kelly, that and leading into me being very passionate about, linking up with other investors.
I was like, man, like I can't find something here locally that is a meetup or something that that I can attend. I have other investors. So I just basically decided to start it myself. And six years later it turned into where we're at now and we're in 12 cities. It's just an awesome network and community.
I'm very excited for what the future has to hold for us. And let's see. And I think summits is one of your ma main focuses for like-minded, and then you also have in person or virtual meetups as well. How often are you having summits throughout the year for those that you know, maybe like that idea?
Yeah. Yeah. We are pushing it for a four this year. Three in Florida, and we already have one in Arizona. Okay. That was in February. We're pushing for that. It's a lot, right? People don't understand. There's a lot that goes into organizing it. And, that's why a lot of people don't do it.
But I love it. I love, again, bringing people together but on a bigger stage on bringing people to speak and share knowledge, that's my passion. Yeah. I love that. All right, so Eric, you've got two properties in South Florida, right? One midterm, one long term. Tell us what are you looking to do in the future?
What are your real estate goals? My real estate goals I would say per month is to generate between 15 to $20,000 a month off of the properties, meaning those are gonna be obviously more and more properties. But whatever that goal, whatever that number is, and however many of that, the properties that gets me to that goal, right?
Eventually, my, my long term goal is to own and operate. Over 500 doors. That's my goal for the long term. But all I really want is just a really good portfolio that's appreciated. I love buy and holds, and the markets where those are is specifically here in South Florida.
Obviously other areas. But, that's my goal is just to buy in areas that are. Gonna be appreciated. And then you can obviously do some HELOCs and all that other stuff that, you know we can go into, but. Yeah. If you are listening right now and you're like 500 doors, that's a big number.
I don't ever have that goal. Keep in mind, you can go back and listen to our episode with Rachel Gaines Brew. She's got a really cool story of the two door method that you just need one short term, one midterm. Both luxury and you can generate just as much profit and revenue on two doors if you find the right one.
So we do value the growth in real estate, right? And 500 doors is an amazing goal to aim towards and and achieve. And so we, we applaud you in that, Eric, and look forward to following your journey there. Let's live where you are right now. You've got your midterm rental. Tell us about the layout.
It sounds like it's a duplex. You've rented as entire unit. You've rented it as a room rental, so give us a scoop on your midterm rental. Yeah, I will. Absolutely. So I I live in a certain area where there's hospitals where there's a lot of commute, where there's a lot of remote workers. Everyone wants to be here.
The Beach's 10 minutes away. It's a very the area is desired, right? When I initially. Started doing the month to month midterm rental concept. I obviously had an unfurnished finder, put a bunch of signs out around, around the pro, around the premises, or even like down the street and gotten some calls.
And, most of these individuals were either in industries that they were only here for a couple of months, a month, a couple of weeks. And they're like, Hey, do you have a room? Sure, I do. So that's kinda what got it started Now the remote workers is really important in this area.
And the amount of money that you can make per month rather than doing long term is a huge right? So the gap is way different. So I specifically was looking for anyone that that wanted, two months, three months to come in. I had obviously the place furnished and it was just, it was great.
I would used to go through the whole concept of getting 'em on board and then going through, TransUnion, right? Looking in their background check, seeing what what they have going on, and then and then inviting 'em in and just putting 'em on a month to month lease, right?
To me, it's one of the best methods for my portfolio, and it's just a very, for me, it's very easy.
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Yeah. I like how Eric, you emphasize how simple and easy it is and. Was it always your primary? If it was always your primary, where were you living when you rented out as an entire unit? So it would either be living with my girlfriend which, that's that that happens.
But, I try not to just, yeah. Kinda keep it separate there. Yeah. 'cause she's probably gonna want some profit out of that. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. But with, without a doubt, it happened once and I stayed there for a week and she's like, where's my half?
So I, and I, Hey I commend that, that's that's big on her. But yeah it's either there or I go and just live in the other unit and that's really about it. I, I. I, I try to do it as, as of the availability right, of my schedule. I travel for work sometimes, so you know, if I'm traveling, then I have the whole unit open for a couple weeks or a month, and then I'm staying in one city.
Et cetera. Yeah, what, whatever works with basically my schedule, right? I know that sounds strange, but I base it off of what I'm doing, where I'm going and then plan it out. And then and obviously Kelly, I don't know if I can go into to the whole YAI rentals. Oh, yes. Yeah, we are looking forward to that.
Okay. It's on my list. Go ahead. Okay so we're talking about tenant types now. Tenant types. Yeah, so tenant types. It's all about area. It's all about where you are. It's all about where you're located. And where I'm located specifically is it's actually the yachting capital of the world, meaning there's the most yachts here.
Okay. Didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I think it's here, maybe like one other place in another country, but we're very close or the leader of it. So here in West Palm there's two hubs basically, and where I am, there's literally a marina a block away. And when the crew so the yacht, yachties yacht, I don't know, I don't know if you've heard of that term before, but if you go on tv, there's this show called oh man, what is it called?
Below Deck or something. And like they, they actually usually film it over here. But it's, yeah. Yeah. So like that is if you were to go and watch it, you'd understand they're on land. They're not on land, they need a place to put their stuff, or they're going in between jobs. Then they need a place to stay for a month or even put their stuff there for a month. Sometimes they're not even here. And the strategy is per room, per bed. So if it's per room, per bed, it's 250 bucks. Per bed per room. You have two beds in each room, right? You're generating 500 bucks a week, and there you go, right?
So if you have two, if you have two rooms, you're generating a thousand dollars just for that. That, that unit. And are you a, are you able to apply that pricing model to midterm as well, or are you talking more on a short term basis? No, this is midterm. Oh, great. Oh, this is, oh, good. Yeah.
Yeah. They they do either month or two months, sometimes three months. I don't bet you do short term. Do you do short term Eric or you do all month or longer? That's what I was thinking. No, I used to do, I used to do short term. Yeah. Yeah. That was my first property, but I don't do that anymore.
Yeah. And have you had some of these yacht contractors or employees stay at your place, I think in an entire room right now, and you're just branching into the idea of putting beds in there versus versus entire room rentals? So it's a fascinating world. We have one episode that's about bed rentals and it's sober living bed rentals.
But we also had, at the midterm rental summit, I spoke with someone in the airline industry, worked for Delta and rinse out crash pads for airline attendees. So that's something to keep in mind as well, is what Eric's saying is you could maximize your revenue and provide. Missed opportunity in the market for renting out beds to flight attendants or airline attendants, yacht members yacht employees or contractors.
I'm curious if you guys listening, know of any other great bed rental tenant types, please put in the show notes. We'd like to hear about 'em for sure. I think this also speaks to getting to know your market, right? Because. Obviously the only way Eric was able to discover this was to get to know his market, and so many people think of midterm rentals as just medical professionals or just insurance, housing or whatever it is.
But there's so many use cases. Kelly, you and I are still learning about all the different ones. Like this one is the perfect example, but to really get the bullet know it. Yeah, you have to get to know your market even if you don't. Live there. And that's the type of stuff that you can't really find online or in a forum or anything like that.
Like you gotta jump in and just start exploring. So kudos for doing that. Are there any lessons you've learned so far with renting? By the bed versus by the room? Yes. You gotta be careful. You gotta be careful with mixing in rooms, right? Meaning, gender, right?
You just gotta be careful with that. You also just wanna know if they know each other, if they don't know each other. And that's why I do the background checks just to make sure that they're good to go and nothing is bad. But yeah, so that, that is one of 'em. Other than that, it's been really easy.
And I even think I. Was mentioning to Kelly that like this type of industry, they're so neat. Like they're neat, they're tight, they they clean up after themselves. It's just very because they're on ships, right? They're on boats, they're on yachts. So they need to be clean, they need to be tidy.
They keep all their stuff in the corner or, they don't bother people. For right now it's been great. I the tenant selection and how this type of industry acts is, has been phenomenal, awesome. I wanna add one thing in regards to the tenant type. We're saying make sure you know your market.
I don't know about you Katie or Eric. To know my market, all I do is watch tenant leads. It's like I haven't really gotten into following the news or following what the city has coming. Those are all great things to do, but I have found the easiest way for me to keep up with who's coming into my market.
Is just through the variety of requests coming in on Furnished Finder tenant leads. I've, and it changes. Like we, I've been on Furnished Finder for about three years now or more, and at first maybe there was a lot of traveling medical professionals in my temple belt in area. Now I'm seeing. A lot of electricians and there's a solar farm going in.
Military families come for Fort Casa close by. I just, I think I just, we didn't win this one, but it's one of those tenant lead types that he came in, he toured about six different properties. He needed a place, a midterm rental for a year with his wife while he was, I I believe an officer at stationed at Fort Casa.
And. I think he was at the Pentagon when I was talking to him. So it's like all these different tenant types are coming in and I just find out about him from Furnished Finder. Katie, where do you keep up with your market? I think that's really smart, Kelly. I think it, that's another value of those unmatched leads, even if you don't.
Get bookings there as often. It, there are some really good insights. Mine are very similar and also just all of our midterm rentals right now are out of state, but my family lives in the area so they know hey. This new project has started to go on and this new hospital is being built.
And those are more insights into the future because they're not gonna have those tenant leads yet, but they have the stuff that's not gonna be on the news, it's not gonna you only really know if you're living there, right? They're like, oh, they're talking about this big project. Or, they were building this hospital and they got behind on contractors, so they have to bring in people like this stuff that.
Nobody's gonna talk about, right? But they have those insights that has been incredibly helpful for us. As well as just knowing the market as far as okay, this area's growing, this area's settling off or whatever. So I think that is, a way that you can put a few things together.
Alright, Eric, we've talked about how we like unmatched leads to look into kind of the crystal ball. But tell us what, what has proved beneficial for Furnished Finder for your business thus far? And some things maybe unfurnished finder, if there's anything that you use that maybe most people don't tend to use as much as they should.
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First off, it's a great. Great platform for leads, obviously. But what I like is the way that the way I, that I do it is any lead that comes in that's matched or even unmatched, I'll reach out to them. It's the quickness, it's the way that furnish funder provides the information for us to contact them.
Very easy, very straightforward. Hey, this is their name. This is their budget. This is what, this is the requirements. And then what I can do is, if I have that full unit open, I can also be like, Hey, if you don't want the full unit, we also have a room. Or I can do a discount for you.
Or whatever. Also I like the fact that. That, the number is there so I can text them or email them. And when I was actually informing Kelly that I've sent videos like a walkthrough. Of the place in your first text. I think as in my first text, first communication includes a video.
Yeah. That's so cool. Yeah. So the way when the lead rolls through, it sends me a text. I actually, I think I just got a text not that long ago, like today. Yeah, this is live Guys Live Furnished Finder text coming in. Right here at eight there, it's eight o'clock. That's what it looks like.
I get a I just got a text says, Hey, you have a new tenant lead from so and i'll just keep that, I'm, repeat the name. Uhhuh please log into your dashboard to Vere lead. That's a wonderful thing. So you know that there's someone looking now. Katie, I do like how you just basically said when you know your market, right now it seems like my market is going off the chain because I keep getting text messages every day and leads. So now I know that in May right. This is the hot time, which it is not hot temperature, which actually is coming next month. Maybe both but then it might slow down a little bit for vacationers, but this is not a seasonal place, right?
Where I was before on the West coast is very seasonal. That's actually what I learned doing short term over there. Not really the best for that, right? Yeah, Furnished Finder is just a really valuable tool to use. Any investor that I'm in front of and they don't know you, I obviously tell 'em about Furnished Finder because it's just a really good tool to utilize.
And it's only a hundred bucks, right? It's a hundred bucks or 150 bucks. Yeah, one 50 per year. That is not per month, that is per year. So it breaks down about $13 per month. Totally worth it, especially when you compare it to one booking on a short-term rental platform that's taking 3% or more of your profits.
So definitely worth the value. It's and you see all those tenant leads rolling in. Yeah. So I'm loving this. Let's keep rolling into some of those midterm rental Furnished Finder tips where. In a room rental situation, it's gonna be a little bit different than just doing your standard tenant screening for someone renting your entire property.
And if you are new to the concept of midterm rentals, we have our sister company key check, which is the. Suite of business tools for your midterm rental process. Once you get someone that says, Hey, I'd like to move forward in the booking process, then we have key check available for you. And most of the features are free to the landlord and pay by the tenant, and it's just a way for you to successfully keep your midterm rental business simple and on track.
And build that trust by using Furnished Finder tools. So in addition to those tenant screenings, what do you, what kind of application type questions or topics do you make sure in touch when someone is going to share the home with you since you're in one of the rooms? Yeah. Screening questions about what they do what are they here for, how long they're here for.
Yeah. When they're living with me, it's a different, a little different ball game. Of course I have them go through the whole background check. And then, yeah, then we'll go from there. I'll also I, I actually I do remember Kelly, remember when I was saying that.
I got better as a, as an entrepreneur, as a business owner of, right? When I hire, I use like the disc profiling process and it's not like I give them the whole 25, 24 question form to fill out. It's just I've been doing it for a couple years, so I have that in my mind already. So when I'm talking to them and asking them questions and I figure out who they are, how they act.
How they interact like with me in the area. Additional to that, are they a partier? Are they not a partier? What's their schedule like? Are they gonna come in, come out at 2:00 AM you know, slam the door or not? So they're just questions that you kinda wanna ask.
If they're living in your own space. And room rentals don't have to operate a lot different than entire units. Few quick tips on the, making sure you get the right tenants in the home. So in the year that Dave and I have been doing room rentals at one of our temple properties it has been, I think we've only had four.
Tenants, which is pretty impressive. We have two room rentals. Rather than renting out all three bedrooms in our two bedroom home, we do a luxury room rental where everyone, so there's only two people in the home, they get their own private. Bath and one person gets two queen bedrooms and a private bath.
The other person gets the master bedroom and a private bath. And that just filled a gap in our market where there were a lot of maybe room rental prices around 800 or 900. And so I have been able to ask for 1400 and hit those travelers that. Don't want too much share shared space, but also need that more affordable pricing and need the room rental for that specific time in their life, for their stay.
So what I do is when they reach out and say, I'm interested in your room rental, I, give a bit of a background on the person that's currently in the home. I ask them, are they traveling with pets since. I offer two bedrooms and one bath couples. Inquire a lot of times that might be interested because they get a little bit more space.
Or right now one of our guests is actually a realtor and she has two cats. So she has one of the bedrooms and then the cats have the other bedrooms. So there's, it's like there's so many, and the gentleman that moved in with her said. I was like, she has two cats, so you wonder is someone gonna wanna live with two cats?
And he said, I actually miss my cat a lot. I'll, I'd like to consider bringing my cat for, but for now I think it would be nice to have cats in the home. So it worked out great. And then the next thing that I do is say, Hey, if this sounds. Interesting to you and something that might be a good fit.
Then the next thing I wanna do is connect you so y'all can talk, make sure it will be a good fit for both of you. And if so, then we'll move forward with the tenant screening, the lease and the rent payments. And that has worked well for a year and a half now. Yeah, I think communication is so key in midterm rentals in general.
Yes. And then when you get to the room rentals. That becomes even more important, right? Because you don't wanna end up in a situation where you've got co-tenants that don't get along right? But taking that communication and taking it very seriously and being really thorough and transparent. Then getting those background checks, key check uses TransUnion which is great.
It's a soft credit check, but it also gives you an eviction check. It gives you a criminal history check, like you can feel really solid about that person. And that's definitely something you do not want to skip over. On the revenue side. Just one more quick thing to add on room rentals is this is our home that has an A DU in the back.
So what's really nice is when you have a potential vacancy, an entire unit, you're covering the mortgage, right? It's a little bit more important. So when it comes to room rentals, especially with an A DU in the back. All I need is two tenants to cover the mortgage, and then that third tenant is my cash flow.
So I really, so far it's, the cash flow is around 1500 or 1400 if both rooms if all three rooms are filled between the house and the private a DU in the backyard. So it's, it can give you a little bit more of that less risk and more reward by having the multiple units as well.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. That, that my, my area, it was about the same, and obviously it depends on when you buy the property as well, I bought at the right time. Not knowing it was the right time, but I bought it the right time and my mortgage is only like 2,800 right now, and I was getting a around 4,000 with the whole unit.
And that's just one unit. Then you go to the other union if you rent out the rooms. Additionally, you do some yacht rentals in there and you have it month to month and they're on monthly basis contracts. Or leases, then you're just, yeah.
The sky's the limit from there. Like I said it's a thousand dollars right. Per week if you fill the rooms. If you fill the rooms. So that's an extra four grand. So it's just, there's so many ways to obviously generate some really nice rev revenue. Also, you want me to go into the additional revenue?
Yes. When you think of water, what do you think of? Boats so these small boats like sailboats and the smaller little raft tube dinghies that people don't necessarily want to pay a bunch of money for, but what I do is I can charge between 200 to $300 per month. And have it in the yard, which is wonderful.
And that just gives me, personally me, 'cause there's actually no restrictions in my neighborhood. And it all depends on the restrictions, right? In your neighborhood. So you just gotta be careful with that. But for me personally, it's great. You know what's a good, what's a nice extra, 600 bucks coming in, just.
For having a cool sailboat or a cool boat in a front yard, right? So there's just always, there's always ways of providing and getting some additional income. And I just, for me personally, from my experiences, that's just been an awesome way of doing it. And I use Neighbor Good. Okay. Yeah. And I also use Neighbor for that purpose.
And it's a really good, it's another really good tool to use along with Furnished Finder. And additionally I do, I did have a furnished finder tenant who needed to leave a car here. And what they did was they paid extra for that spa, right? Because they, they were flying in, flying out. So they're like could I leave the car here?
I'm like, of course, but it's this amount extra, right? Additionally to the room, I charged them an extra 250 bucks. They leave their car there and that was for four months. Yeah. Midterm rentals are full of options for creativity. Like whether it's like finding out that, like you said, like the yacht folk need places to stay, or that people need places to park their car, or maybe they want to rent something additional from you there, there's a lot of things that would go hand in hand with your listing on Furnished Finder, like a parking fee.
I know my listings, all of them have free parking except one that's in a downtown environment, and I'm like, I can't include parking at this price, but. I had the option to pay for par. Like I just tack it on and I put it in my listing and I say, if you want parking, it's X amount. And you can do that with all sorts of stuff.
You can put it in, in your listing, you can tie it into other places. Like you could, like you, if you're in Florida, you could offer a boat, you can offer to have groceries pre delivered by the time they get there. You can have all of these things that all circle back to the core of. Hospitality, right?
But still offer you some added cashflow because cashflow comes from value, right? When you provide value to someone, that's what you make money from. Like we're we all, we're all in real estate, but we're really in a service like we are offering a service. And those are all things that people find very valuable and will pay for.
It's a fair way to add value to your rental and then to increase your rental rate. So I think that's very smart, and I think there's so many ways to get creative, like you said, yeah, the boats, or maybe you've got some bikes, or maybe if someone's missing their cat, maybe you could have a cat that they could pay $2 a month rent to rent.
Crazy. Kelly, you said one tenant. This is not spon. This part is unaffiliated with Furnished Finder. Okay. But if you wanna rent a calf, no, please don't. Please don't go renting animals out by the. Maybe a robot cat in the future can, there we go. Maybe a robot. It doesn't feel totally ethical.
Oh man. I wanna lean into this a bit more the way that we are saying that you can generate additional revenue by. These amenities, you can also make your property stand out by emphasizing amenities that you have the space for that other people don't. So some Furnished Finder tips would be, let's say you have a property that you could store an RV on or a boat on.
Now you don't only have that as an amenity for one of your properties. You potentially have it as amenity for all of your properties because. All you have is the space, and you could add in your headline RV parking available. So now the families that travel around the country with RVs have an option and they may not even care if it's they're paying for storage normally.
So rather than paying for storage, you could work it into the rental if you're in a competitive market or if you have a commodity on the RVs. Storage. Then you could charge extra for that RV storage. So yeah, think of ways that you can put it in your photos, in your title. Look at your competition on Furnished Finder and see what do I have that they don't have that's not gonna break the bank, but I can stand out by offering.
This. I think that's a great way to wa wrap up. Any last tips y'all wanna discuss? Or should we let them all get to work on how they wanna get started in the midterm rental space or add additional revenue to their properties? I say go get started. Eric, if someone wants to connect with you, how would you like them to do yes you could go to like-minded pro.com (opens in new tab). My information is on there. As well as you can email me at eric@likemindedpro.com (opens in new tab). I'm available pretty much anytime. If you call me during a sleep I'll probably pick it up, but probably not because I have on silent. But yeah, so you can reach out to me.
I was gonna say careful what you promise. I know. I don't want but yeah I'm excited. We're continuing to grow in. United States we really want to be in other communities and, keep building and keep sharing and that's it.
That's why we do this. Yeah, I'm really excited and I, again, I really appreciate you having me on here. It was awesome talking to the both of you. And Yes, sir, and I'm gonna continue to be an awesome Furnished Finder host. So I'm excited. Thank you so much for joining us and to lean into that growth portion as we wrap up.
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