About Avery Carl Avery Carl is the author of two Amazon's best-sellers, "Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth: Your Guide to Analyzing, Buying, and Managing Vacation Properties," and “Smarter Short-Term Rentals”. She is also the host of "The Short Term Show" Podcast. And the CEO of The Short Term Shop, the country's TOP short-term rental and Airbnb real estate agency for 3 consecutive years. Avery went from a 37k salary to a real estate portfolio of over 250 doors in 5 years through strategically investing in short-term and vacation rentals. This strategy allowed her to grow her portfolio much more quickly than starting off with traditional long-term rentals. It’s her goal to help as many investors reach financial independence through short term rental investing as possible. She also hosts The Short Term Show (with over 1 million downloads).   What You’ll Learn In this episode we talk about:  Avery’s entry point to vacation rentals Identifying “good markets” for investing Finding good cleaners and real estate agents to work with How to optimize your listing if you aren’t getting enough bookings Resources Say hi to Whitney on IG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices