FIRE by AirBNB: Reaching Financial Freedom through Short-Term Rentals with Zeona McIntyre

Welcome back to Don’t Retire… Graduate! Today’s guest has used Airbnb to reach financial freedom early and is teaching others how to do the same. Zeona McIntyre is an author, realtor, investment consultant, and speaker who has been helping people house hack and build their portfolios of short and medium-term rentals for several years. She sat down with Eric to talk about how she has reached her financial goals, the lessons she has learned through experience, and how she has shaped her career to allow for her ideal lifestyle.  Listen to the conversation and then reach out to Zeona and tell her what it is that would make you happy. In this episode we’ll talk about: • How Zeona started with AirBNB when $50,000 in debt • Things that can go wrong when managing rental properties • Why you should install cameras in your rental properties (and what happened before Zeona learned that lesson) • The FIRE movement and how she got involved • Suze Orman and the traditional, slow retirement ideology  • How Zeona hit her retirement number within two years through real estate investing • Why real estate investing is not actually passive income  • Protecting yourself from liability as a property manager • Zeona’s succession plan • Acting despite fear  Visit dontretiregraduate.com for a full transcript of this episode. About Zeona McIntyre: Zeona McIntyre is an Author, Realtor, Investment Consultant, and Speaker. She has been an Airbnb host since 2012, and she now uses her decade of experience to help her clients House Hack and build portfolios of short & medium-term rentals. She is an avid Real Estate Investor owning a double-digit portfolio of furnished rentals across five states. She is the co-author of the BiggerPockets book "30 Day Stay. A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Mastering the Medium-term Rental''. Instagram: @zeonamcintyre Facebook: zeona.mcintyre YouTube: @ZeonaMTR Website: https://www.zeonamcintyre.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t Retire… Graduate! Is the podcast that asks what you want to be when you grow up so you can graduate into retirement with a passion and a purpose. Hosted by Certified Financial Planner Practitioner, Eric Brotman, this show will explore different methods for saving money, paying down debt, raising financially literate children, growing your wealth, and reaching financial independence–whether you’re 35 or 65. Retirement is not the absence of work, but the absence of needing to work. So join us while we talk to award-winning, best-selling authors, finance experts, influencers, and people with amazing money stories to help you set and reach financial goals, discover your passions, and make a plan for what you want to be when you reach the point where work becomes optional. Plus, between full episodes we’ll answer listener questions about personal finance, investing, retirement readiness, taxes, and more. Topics covered include: budgets, credit, debt, emergency funds, balancing expenses, health savings accounts, insurance and risk management, financial advisors, mortgages, retirement savings, social security, money management, spending, fintech and finance apps, employee benefits, and the FIRE movement.