From an operator whose best renters are placed by insurance companies, not found on Airbnb
Why fixing your listing is quietly keeping your best renters away, and what to do instead
The renters who stay longest were placed by a company. At the First Contract Workshop, you’ll see who places them, why they never see your listing, and what a company needs from you before it can pay you.
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Saturday, November 7 · 11 AM Eastern · live on Zoom
Come to the workshop. If it isn’t useful, email me inside 30 days and you get your $97 back.
About an hour live, then your questions · Replay for 72 hours · The First Contract System included
Let me show you something
Do you see these payments? An insurance company paid me $4,200 a month for a family who lost their house in a fire. This one is $3,500, after a burst pipe in a snowstorm. And this one is $3,750, for a mom who lost everything. That’s $77,000 in rent through September, from three houses. None of it came through Airbnb.
Our own properties. Not typical, and never a promise.
Here’s the part I don’t like saying. The very first person to rent my spare room was a travel nurse, and a company had placed her with me. I noticed it. Then I did nothing with it for a year. I don’t get that year back.
The mistake
The worst thing you can do for your calendar is keep fixing your listing.
Better photos. A sharper price. One more platform. Every one of those is about a stranger who books tonight. You know the month I mean. The calendar fills, the reviews are good, and on the first of the month it starts over at zero.
That’s listing brain. It’s the same habit that makes you a good host, and it points you at the wrong renter.
A company can’t pay a host
The person who picks the house for a family from a fire isn’t scrolling Airbnb. They call someone they already know, someone who is already set up to be paid. The gap between you and that someone isn’t the house. It’s paperwork, and whether they know your name.
It didn’t just happen once
Those three families never searched for a house. An agent knew me, and an adjuster called. From three houses I ended up with five agents and adjusters, and one of them sent me to another agent in Columbus.
A restoration company texted me this in July. Names removed.
One family stayed about 18 months, through five extensions. Each one came by email, like this.
Names, the address and the company removed.And this came from the company that placed a family with me.
Hear it from the owners
These are owners I run homes for. Their results are theirs. They’re not students.
Lee· an owner · Paid every monthMario· an owner · Back in perfect shapeMiguel· an owner · The rent, before and afterMiguel· an owner · No more empty months
What the families say
5.0 on Google, from 45 reviews.
“I had a house fire... My insurance put me in contact with this company for 8 months of lodging.”
“We needed mid-term lodging for a traveling construction team. The home was great, price was fair, and communication was excellent.”
“He’s got a ton of contacts in the insurance and relocation space. Needs good, reliable furnished rental partners. He did EXACTLY what he said he’d do.”
“Its my most hands off and profitable property in my portfolio.”
What you’ll walk away with on Saturday
The seat at every buyer. In any town, someone’s job is placing people in a home for a month or more. Who they are, and why they never look at a listing.
Host or vendor. The one thing a company needs from you before it can pay you, and why a better house loses to a better-prepared host.
When the calls come. The moments demand shows up in your town: a project starts, a nurse signs, a pipe bursts. And what waiting costs you.
The Vendor Path. The three steps from listed to placed, and where most hosts stop.
The Vendor Path
01Know who places people→
02Be ready to be paid→
03Be the name they call
ListedPlaced
Three steps from listed to placed. On Saturday you’ll see what each one is, and why it matters.
If you nodded anywhere on this page, you already agree with the hard part.
Come to the workshop. If it isn’t useful, email me inside 30 days and you get your $97 back.
Saturday, November 7, at 11 AM Eastern, on Zoom. About an hour, then your questions.
The replay for 72 hours
If you can’t make it live.
The First Contract System
It helps you write the two papers a company needs before it can pay you. You build them from your own properties, in one evening. It’s yours the minute you pay.
The 30-day guarantee
Email me inside 30 days and you get your $97 back.
Today: $97
Come to the workshop. If it isn’t useful, email me inside 30 days and you get your $97 back.
People who pay are people who show up. And some of you will want my help after, on the 60-day program. That’s how I keep the workshop at $97. If you’d rather build it on your own, that’s fine too. The system gives you a real start.
“Its my most hands off and profitable property in my portfolio.”
Is this for you?
If you run three to ten furnished properties and your calendar starts over every month, yes. If you have one property, you’re still welcome. Some of it will fit you later.
If you don’t run a furnished property yet, save your $97 and come back when you do.
Quick answers
What if I can’t make it live?
You get the replay for 72 hours, by email.
I’ve listed on Furnished Finder and corporate housing sites. Why is this different?
Those are listings. This is about the person who picks the house before anyone searches.
My market is small.
Small towns still have hospitals, plants and storms. The person placing people there knows fewer hosts, and that can work for you.
I only have three properties.
Three is enough to start. The $77,000 came from three houses, and they brought me five agents and adjusters.
I don’t have time.
The system takes about two hours a week of reaching out. If you can’t give it that, it isn’t for you yet.
What’s the catch?
Some of you will want to work with me after. That’s the catch, and it’s why it’s $97.
You can close this tab
You can close this tab and go back to the listing. Plenty of good hosts do, and the first of the month comes anyway.
If you’ve ever wondered who these families are, I was one of them.
June 2008. Haw Creek flooded Columbus. I lived in Candlelight Village. We were out of our house for three months, living with five other families. Then it took three more months to rebuild. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey.
Or you can spend Saturday morning finding out who places the renters who stay. It took me a year to see it. You can see it in an hour.
Come to the workshop. If it isn’t useful, email me inside 30 days and you get your $97 back.
