Ep. 72: She Bought a Fix & Flip 8 Months Pregnant… With an Alligator in the Pool with Mandy Konecki

That's awesome.

And have you done all of your deals now or most of your deals now in Jacksonville or are they spread out?

They are now.

So when we first started, I also feel like this is a very common thing with other people.

We got into the Airbnb vacation rentals in 2018.

So it was a little bit before the huge popularity and demand came.

So we were on that same train as, oh, we want a vacation rental in all these different places in the mountains, in Georgia, in Ohio, South Florida, Steamboat, Colorado, Idaho, like all the places we're like, we'll just get a vacation spot and then we'll just be pop around to our own properties.

So we started to do that.

And after I think being in three different cities in All the work that comes along with that, you have to learn the regulations on each different city, all the paperwork and the taxes and the licensing.

Then you have to find your reliable cleaning team, which doesn't just happen on your very first, hey, your phone call.

You're going to go through a handful of them.

You have to find a different handyman in every different city and the same thing.

They might not be available.

So you have to have a bunch of resources.

You have to learn the local local things about the community so you can refer your people that are coming to vacation on places to go.

And it was it was wild.

So we we scaled back in to our Jacksonville backyard because we know everything about this and we know all the people.

And then if if something happens and all the people that we know can't be there, we're able to be there.

Totally.

Yeah.

But then in addition to that, the other trigger was when you have places all across the country, you're never actually on vacation.

And then you're also forced to go to that same place.

So if we wanted to go out to Colorado, we would be staying in our place, which is amazing, but it's not a vacation because you're going to get there and you're going to tighten up door, door knobs, and then this toilet might, but things that other people don't see that you see.

So then it, it completely takes the vacation away.

So we got to the point where it's like, let's have these.