EP 502: 30% Annual Yield AirBNB Investing with Andrew Keene

Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 10 a.m.

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Andrew Keene, president and CEO of AlphaShark Trading which is originally founded as KeeneOnTheMarket.com in 2011. Prior to that, he grew up working as a proprietary trader at Chicago Board Options Exchange. He began his career on a trade program and would eventually co-found the KATL group. He currently actively trades future equity options, currency options present in commodities, and was a regular guest/market commentator on such networks as Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business. His first love will always be trading but he\\u2019s arguably even more well-known for building a trading room. He is especially proud of having taught his personal strategies trading for over 50,000 guests for years.

Famous Five:

  • Favorite Book? \\u2013 Automatic Customer
  • What CEO do you follow? \\u2013\\xa0 Elon Musk
  • Favorite online tool? \\u2014 N/A
  • Do you get 8 hours of sleep? \\u2014 No
  • If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? \\u2013 \\u201cNot to date a girl for 8 years and be engaged\\u201d

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

  • 01:38 \\u2013 Nathan introduces Andrew to the show
  • 02:32 \\u2013 Andrew is based in Austin and San Diego
  • 03:17 \\u2013 Andrew is part of Entrepreneur Organization
  • 03:55 \\u2013 Andrew purchased a place in San Diego and put it on Airbnb
  • 05:18 \\u2013 \\u201cThis year I expect to make $20,000 from that $70,000 investment\\u201d
  • 06:24 \\u2013 Andrew wants to get the \\u201cSuper Host\\u201d status on Airbnb
    • 06:33 \\u2013 Airbnb advertises Super Host\\u2019s properties more
  • 06:53 \\u2013 Andrew looks at Airbnb hosting as an investment
  • 07:25 \\u2013 The risk of having your properties in Airbnb
    • 07:31 \\u2013 Stand-alone is not covered by HOA
    • 07:48 \\u2013 HOA wants to ban short-term rentals in San Diego
    • 08:10 \\u2013 Hosts can take advantage of their cash-flow situation
  • 08:50 \\u2013 Andrew has made $5M from trading
  • 09:30 \\u2013 Andrew shares how he got into trading
  • 10:32 \\u2013 Andrew has a place in Chicago, too
    • 10:38 \\u2013 Andrew is making around $8,000 a year for his place in Chicago
  • 11:16 \\u2013 Andrew is starting his second deal
  • 11:41 \\u2013 People ask Andrew how he makes money through the investment
  • 12:04 \\u2013 Andrew is working on a book with Airbnb
  • 12:11 \\u2013 AirBNBopen in LA
  • 12:25 \\u2013 There are around 7,000 people who paid Andrew for trading information
  • 12:35 \\u2013 Andrew has more than 50,0000 people in his email list
  • 13:09 \\u2013 Andrew shares how his cash flow works with his property in San Diego
  • 13:45 \\u2013 Andrew names software that he uses other than Revestor
    • 13:50 \\u2013 AirDNA is where you can buy reports of any city
    • 14:23 \\u2013 Mashvisor use to search for rental properties
  • 14:45 \\u2013 You can use analytics and research by\\xa0 Revestor to get into the market
  • 15:50 \\u2013 Standard percentage for payment fees
  • 16:30 \\u2013 Nathan makes an offer to Andrew
  • 17:55 \\u2013 Email Andrew to connect with him
  • 20:05 \\u2013 The Famous Five

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3 Key Points:

  • Find the right investment and STUDY it as best as you can.
  • Go to someone who is an expert in a market that you want to be in.
  • Stay independent as long as you can.

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Resources Mentioned:

  • Acuity Scheduling \\u2013 Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments
  • Drip \\u2013 Nathan uses Drip\\u2019s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel
  • Toptal\\xa0\\u2013 Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn\\u2019t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal
  • Host Gator\\xa0\\u2013 The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible.
  • Audible\\xa0\\u2013 Nathan uses Audible when he\\u2019s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books.
  • The Top Inbox\\xa0 \\u2013 The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens and follow-up with email sequences
  • Andrew@AlphaShark.com \\u2013 Andrew\\u2019s email address
  • Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives
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