Live Let Thrive Podcast
Airbnb, PadSplit, Corporate Rentals, Arbitrage, Live Let Thrive covers all the creative ways to rent out your properties to maximize profits. We also get into buying properties in creative ways. Come along for the ride and have some fun along the way!
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PadSplit Changed the Rules Overnight — 22 Days of Empty Rent (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail PadSplit changed its booking window to 30 days without warning hosts - Myka discovered a guest booked 22 days out, leaving a room empty with zero revenue. He and Steve break down what that means for cash flow when you're counting on six rents from one house, and why they're now wary of adding more PadSplit units as cities start cracking down. The conversation covers their current MTR sweet spot (four-bedroom houses with pools command a thousand-dollar premium), the hidden ex...
Airbnb Held His Payment — Then the Guests Vanished ($2,600 Gone) (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail Airbnb held Steve's $2,600 payment on a 48-day booking, then cancelled the reservation after the seven-day hold window ended. When he arrived at the house, the guests had vanished—no cars, AC turned off, and 96 degrees inside. He suspects they were birth tourists who had a baby in the U.S. and left the country without paying the second month. The hosts discuss standing firm on leases with difficult midterm guests, the risks of properties that can't do short-term rentals, new...
DFW Is Getting Ugly: We’re Done With 1–2 Bedroom Arbitrage (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail Myka and Steve announce they're done with 1-2 bedroom arbitrage in DFW after years of profitable operations. With the market shifting - houses sitting for months, price cuts everywhere, and midterm bookings drying up for small units - they're pivoting hard to purchasing 3-4 bedroom houses and pad splits in C/D neighborhoods. The conversation covers what's working now (workforce crews want 4+ bedrooms, corporate housing providers reaching out directly), what's dying (travel nu...
The Claude Dashboard That Runs My Entire Rental Business (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail Myka walks through the custom Claude AI dashboard that manages his entire rental operation - from pulling live Price Labs data and calculating optimal Airbnb/Vrbo discounts based on local market conditions, to connecting with QuickBooks for P&L tracking and automating guest invoicing. He prices Vrbo listings 30-50% higher than Airbnb and adjusts monthly discounts seasonally, dropping them to 10% in high season when he can command $3,600/month, then raising them as school ...
PadSplit’s New Superhost Rules and a $15,000 Fire Alarm (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail Steve discovers his poolman was in two car accidents, leaving three pools turning green with guests already checked in. At 100+ degrees on a Sunday, he grabs his scrub brushes and shocks all four pools himself - three rentals plus his own - spending hours in the heat to save the bookings. One pool had overflowed after a backup guy forgot to return and turn off the hose. The hosts cover PadSplit's new superhost criteria that ding acceptance rates, a city requiring a $15,000 c...
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