Hi, I'm Tim Hubbard. This is how short-term rentals changed my life.
Not a guru story. A 15-year operating story. Properties bought, mistakes made, teams built, and a life designed around travel. Here's the honest timeline.
Caught the travel bug on a high-school trip to Spain. Started looking for a way to earn a living while seeing the world.
Read Rich Dad Poor Dad and shifted toward assets that earn money without costing money. Paid for college working restaurants and hospitality.
Bought a first property: a 4-plex in Sacramento, CA, and lived in one unit while the other three covered the rent.
Added a duplex and a single-family home. Started staying in Airbnbs and saw where this was going.
Became a commercial real estate investment broker: deal analysis, comps, markets, cycles, across $2B in transactions.
Completed an MBA at UC Davis, thinking it would broaden my opportunities. It didn't.
Read The 4-Hour Workweek, quit the brokerage job, bought a one-way ticket to Argentina, and went nomadic. Converted a first long-term rental to short-term, saw 4–8× the returns.
Converted three more units. The system started to take shape.
One of the early units, 2016.Bought an 8-unit building in Tennessee, hired a first team member, formed MidTown Stays, and moved to Colombia full-time.
Acquired 32 more units and a first international investment in Colombia.
Invested in Brazil. Launched Short Term Rental Riches — the podcast — and began teaching investors through Rest Methods.
The team had grown so strong we started managing other owners' properties remotely, exactly like mine.
MidTown Stays became Corzly, now running properties in 50+ cities across 8 countries.
Breaking ground on a ground-up STR community development in Colombia. The next chapter.
Still operating. Still traveling. Still improving.
These days home base is Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, a beach town on the country's south coast. When I'm not on a tennis court (which is as often as I can manage), I'm doing the thing I still enjoy most: working with our team on improving operations, day in and day out, for hundreds of short-term rentals across the U.S. and around the world.
Same obsession that started with a single Sacramento 4-plex, just a lot more doors, a lot more team, and a lot more travel between them.
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