Welcome to the She’s Got Assets real estate investing podcast! Follow along as host Shona Lepis documents her real estate investment journey, providing transparent and honest views of the process with a healthy dose of inspiration and honesty. She’ll unpack and demystify the different pieces of investment strategies through expert interviews and personal experience. Whether it’s creative financing, how to find off-market deals, flipping, multi-family, long-term, mid-term, or short-term rentals. Our goal is to educate and inspire others to financial freedom and generational wealth through real estate.
Midterm Rentals: Community, Lead Generation, and Scaling Connect with: James Hwang
Host Shona Lepis interviews James Hwang, co-founder of Stellar Housing Solutions, about building community and leveraging lead generation for scaling mid-term rental businesses.
22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Running Mid-Term Rentals Like a Business (Co-Hosting, Systems & Real Operations)
What does it actually take to run mid-term rentals at scale?
Not the highlight reel… the backend.
In this episode, I sit down with Allen Duan, founder of Hospy Homes, who manages 35+ furnished units in Los Angeles. We break down what it really looks like to operate a mid-term rental business—from co-hosting and property management to systems, team, and day-to-day operations.
If you’ve ever thought about scaling your MTRs or stepping into co-hosting, this is a behind-the-scenes look at how it actually works.
Inside the episode, we cover:
Co-hosting vs arbitrage (and how operators are structuring deals today)
What property management really looks like in the MTR space (including fees and responsibilities)
Why most hosts struggle with mid-term bookings—and how to market beyond Airbnb and Furnished Finder
Real underwriting numbers (including occupancy assumptions and risk)
What actually matters when furnishing for mid-term stays
The systems, tech stack, and team structure behind a 35+ unit operation
How AI is being used in real operations (Notion, SOPs, and workflow support)
This is for hosts who want to move beyond “winging it” and start running their rentals like a real business.
Connect with: Allen Duan
https://www.skool.com/mtr-office-hours/about
Show Sponsor: She’s Got Assets™
We offer two courses. The MTR Playbook course teaches real estate investors how to set up and fully book their first mid-term rental with great guests so they can 2x your cash flow. We cover the basics from planning and how to set up and furnish your mid-term rental, how to self-manage and get direct bookings to keep more profit, to how to launch your first mid-term rental.The REI Playbook teaches you how to scale your rental portfolio or buy your first investment property, without door knocking or calling, from how to market to find off-market deals to creative REI strategies like owner financing.
Join our Skool group: The Asset Society - Learn how to 2x your rental income with mid-term rentals and get Access to the MTR Essentials course.
https://www.skool.com/the-asset-society/about
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Connect with host Shona Lepis.
Shona Buys Houseshttps://www.shonabuyshouses.com/Cedar & Porch Properties | Mid-Term Rentals Portland ORhttp://cedarandporchproperties.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shonalepis/
17 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
MTRO PRO - The Midterm Rental Operations System MTR Operators Have Been Waiting For with Dre Galaviz
Shona Lepis hosts Dre Galaviz on the She’s Got Assets podcast to discuss MTRO Pro, a new midterm rental–specific operations system created after Dre was laid off and struggled managing his growing MTR portfolio with a “hodgepodge” of tools. Andre explains Metro Pro’s goal of consolidating centralized guest communications (email, SMS, WhatsApp and more), CRM-style lead pipelines, leases with merge fields and e-sign, background checks, payments, bookkeeping-friendly reporting, and MTR-specific metrics like average monthly rate (AMR) to help operators price more effectively. He outlines plans for lawyer-reviewed MTR leases for all 50 states, AI-assisted guest messaging and reporting, OTA lead ingestion from platforms like Airbnb and Furnish Finder, guest dashboards, community features (Community Corner and Vendor Village), and a mobile app. Metro Pro plans to launch around early June and is recruiting a “Founding 50” via metropro.com.
Connect with: Dre Galaviz
https://mtropro.com/
Show Sponsor: She’s Got Assets™
We offer two courses. The MTR Playbook course teaches real estate investors how to set up and fully book their first mid-term rental with great guests so they can 2x your cash flow. We cover the basics from planning and how to set up and furnish your mid-term rental, how to self-manage and get direct bookings to keep more profit, to how to launch your first mid-term rental.The REI Playbook teaches you how to scale your rental portfolio or buy your first investment property, without door knocking or calling, from how to market to find off-market deals to creative REI strategies like owner financing.
Join our Skool group: The Asset Society - Learn how to 2x your rental income with mid-term rentals and get Access to the MTR Essentials course.
https://www.skool.com/the-asset-society/about
Join our FREE Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shesgotassetsnetwork
Tag us on Instagram with a takeaway from this episode.
Follow us on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shesgotassets #shesgotassets
Subscribe to our YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@shesgotassets
Connect with host Shona Lepis.
Shona Buys Houseshttps://www.shonabuyshouses.com/Cedar & Porch Properties | Mid-Term Rentals Portland ORhttp://cedarandporchproperties.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shonalepis/
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Midterm Rentals: Community, Lead Generation, and Scaling Connect with: James Hwang
Published 17 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And they said, when we come home, we take the long way to walk home. And so because yeah, there's a lot of shady activity that's happening. And the thing is, whether it's your short -term, midterm, long -term, whatever it may be, safety is like the number one thing. Like insurance is super duper important, but also guest safety for your residents or any of the occupants is really important. The thing is, if you buy an asset or a home in a place that is not safe or in a place where you wouldn't wanna live yourself, that's also gonna reflect in your reviews. And that can also reflect in a number of stars, your ratings. […]
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