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81 contributions to Insurance Mid-Term Rentals
📞 Tomorrow's call is cancelled - We are taking the week off!
Hey Vetted Homes family! Just a quick heads up that tomorrow's call won't happen this week. We got an invitation to Disneyland with our daughter, and honestly, that is an easy yes! 🎉 We will be back next week, refreshed and ready to go. See you then! 🙌 The Vetted Homes Team
📞 Tomorrow's call is cancelled - We are taking the week off!
Hug the mouse for us! 🐭
Home finally listed
Our 4th furnished home in Edmond is finally listed, 4 months after we leased it. 😂 Cool story behind this one. We closed on the home in late May. @Shayler and Dominique McCarthy immediately went to work designing and furnishing the home. Had it complete in 7 days! and ready for a June 15 move in. But here's the crazy part: We leased the home for 5 months, with a possible extension, before I ever had real photos and before the property was listed on any platform. Here's what I did. I already had three furnished homes in Edmond. I listed those properties as available June 15. As leads came in, I'd explain that the home they were asking about was leased, but I had a brand new even more beautiful home coming.... that was going to be even nicer. Dominique had created AI renderings of what the new home would look like once it was furnished, so that's what I sent prospects. That was enough to secure the lease. The tenant moved in June 15, and I'm barely getting around to officially listing the property now. 😂 The biggest lesson was this: Once you build a portfolio in one market, you're no longer marketing individual houses. You're marketing your inventory. Every lead or inquiry on one home can become a tenant for another home. We now have 4 furnished homes in Edmond, all relatively close to each other, and that's exactly how I plan to continue building the portfolio. Here's #4 this time with the real pictures. 👇 Tomorrow and the weekend will be FF and Airbnb. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4228-NW-156th-Ter-Edmond-OK-73013/331713396_zpid/?view=public
Love this!! #goals
Great tips!
Great tips from this Jesse Vasquez podcast with @James Hwang , who is a member here and operates 25+ MTRs on the East Coast, including several homes in the same markets. One thing that stood out: they don't just list a property and wait for the next tenant (like i do!). They have a system to get leads on their own. For example, they send emails asking for referrals about 8 days after move-in, when the tenant is settled and happy, and again a few days before move out. He gave other examples too. But the idea that really caught my attention was marketing the entire portfolio inside each individual listing. It's such a simple idea, but it totally makes sense. If someone likes your home but the dates don't work, they might just leave to look at other ones, why lose the lead when you may have another property nearby? I immediately added this to my newest Edmond listing: "FURNISHED HOME | PART OF OUR 4-HOME EDMOND PORTFOLIO Need different dates or another home? Ask about our other furnished properties nearby." I'll be updating the other three listings as well. Thanks James. The more homes you have in one market, the less you're marketing individual properties and the more you're marketing your portfolio.
Great tips!
@James Hwang is the bomb!! 💣 🔥
MTR market validation, supply & competition analysis
I’m looking at adding homes to my portfolio, but in the Tulsa Oklahoma market and have been working through my MTR Market Selection Scorecard (Thank you ChatGPT). Right now I’m at the market validation, supply & competition stage. I’m not looking at any homes to yet. It's too early. I already know the type of home I want, newer 4bd, 2000-2200sq ft, good neighborhood, family friendly layout, nice kitchen and living space, etc. But before I start looking at houses, I want to answer the BIG question: Is this actually a good market for my MTR strategy? I think sometimes we do it backwards. We find a house we like and then ask, “Would this make a good MTR?” I rather validate the market (myself) first, then the specific area, understand the competition and demand, price and only then start looking for the right house. First is to look at Furnished Finder and Zillow. I found 15 furnished 4bd listings. At first I didn’t like seeing that much competition. I will do the same with all properties on Airbnb as well. But we need to look at each individual property. I went through the listings individually, price, photos, age and condition of the home, neighborhood, location, layout, dining/living space, pet policy, rental history, Airbnb activity, reviews and overall quality and ran everything through ChatGPT to organize and analyze it. Just give it the Furnished Finder links, provide pictures and start discussing the property with your AI, One thing Chat did that i liked, it analyzed calendar updates. I never did that. We noticed several properties with "dormant" calendars, not updated in FF for 8-9 months. We (as in ChatGPT,) crossed reference the properties in Airbnb and found they are very active in STR (55 and 376 reviews) so it's not a true direct competitor of MTR. Cool stuff. The results were pretty interesting. 15 listings did NOT mean 15 true competitors. Once we broke them down, we found only 1 that I would consider a true direct competitor to the type of newer 4 bd home MTR I want to own and operate.
This is so helpful and generous Luis. Thank you!! 🙏🏻
Help with evaluating Vetting Homes or others...
Hello, This looks like a great community. I didn't see this question posted, so feel free to point me to other discussions that may be helpful... I am currently evaluating Kirby Atwell's LivingOffRentals blueprint, and I was wondering how it compares to Mid-Term Rental blueprint. Kirby's program is more focused on mid-range STR's, versus what appears to be an MTR focus with this community. Due to 1st year tax benefits, I'd like to start with STR's as well, but am attracted to the MTR path long term. Does anyone have any experience with Kirby's program and how it would compare to this program? Any recommendations on what's best for starting with STR's? Other recommendations? Thanks!
I'll add my two cents since I went through a similar decision process. I spent close to ~$35k over the past three years getting set up with Anderson Advisors (Titanium) and trained in BRRR, PML, STR, and more. I tried to execute, but I didn't have actionable “hand-holding” training or more importantly community encouragement and support to actually pull it off. And, in most cases the training was dripped out in a way that felt designed to keep me needing more and spending more money. It wasn't until my husband and I joined Vetted Homes that I was able to actually execute. Literally, in 30-days from joining Vetted, we welcomed our first client and will make a ~$3800 profit this month. What makes the difference isn't just the content, it's the community of active operators, especially at the VIP levels. These are people in the arena with you, not spectators watching from the sidelines. That's a very different experience than a course you work through solo or a course with a competitive vs generous spirit within the community. On the STR vs. MTR question specifically, I don't think you have to pick one over the other, and the two programs can probably sit side-by-side in your toolkit. But I'd caution against thinking of them as apples to apples. There's real overlap in the setup (furnishing, photography, basic hosting systems), and plenty of operators run a hybrid model successfully. But the strategies underneath are quite different. What sets Vetted Homes apart in general is the “unreasonable hospitality” — Four Seasons level customer service — we are all working to provide our guests, as well as the fact that it’s specifically built around marketing to ALE (Additional Living Expense) insurance placements: adjusters, housing coordinators, carriers. That's a pretty narrow, specialized channel, and the depth of detail here on how to actually break into and operate in that space is something specific and special. As they say, the riches are in the niches. Kirby's program, from what I understand, is more general mid-range STR, useful for the STR side of a hybrid strategy, but it's not going to teach you the insurance housing playbook.
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Kate and Jason Stolarczyk
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Professional marketers. 3x Founders w/ Exits. Own, operate MTR in LA and co-host in Seattle. Always happy to connect with other investors & operators.

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