What they don't tell you is that you are buying from the people who commissioned this article.
> So we started with house hacking, a lower-cost way of getting into real estate. We planned to buy a house, live in a part of it, and rent out the rest of the home to someone else.
> We bought a five-bedroom home in Redding, California, four hours north of San Francisco. While we lived in a 252-square-foot detached guest house in the backyard, our main house was bringing in about $8,000 a month in revenue on Airbnb.
> We were basically living for free and getting paid money every month. We grew confident in real estate and saw its potential. I even set a personal goal to quit Meta once I was making $10,000 a month from real estate.
> We doubled down and bought two more properties in 2021, and by the end of that year, I reached that $10,000-a-month milestone. I then bought two more homes in 2022 and one more in 2023.
Literally an advertisement for AirBNB
Of course, if you can do it, it's a good option. But according to what I hear around me, you are just as likely going to be feed for the experienced sharks as maintenance costs and bad tenant choices eat you up.