How to Choose the Right Short Term Rental Realtor for Your Investment
Summary
This article from The Short Term Shop discusses the importance of choosing the right realtor when investing in short-term rentals. It highlights the benefits of working with agents who specialize in STRs, have local market expertise, and are investors themselves, offering self-management training. Hosts should consider using a realtor with STR focus for finding the right property and managing it successfully.
Key Insights
- •The Short Term Shop has helped over 5,000 investors purchase more than $3.5 billion in short term rentals.
- •Most of The Short Term Shop agents are short term rental investors themselves.
Action Items
- ✓Consider working with a realtor who specializes in short term rentals and possesses local market expertise.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Short Term Shop Plus: The Short Term Shop Plus offers exclusive education and mentorship platform with training on how to self-manage.
- →Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth: Avery Carl has written two best-selling books, “Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth” and “Smarter Short Term Rentals.
Watch Out For
- ⚠Failing to self-manage can prevent you from utilizing the tax loophole.
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