Spend 3 days with the world's leading short-term rental experts

Join us! October 28 - 30 in Houston, TX

 
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What Is Host Con?

A 3-day experience designed specifically to inspire and equip short-term rental operators and aspiring hosts. With 7+ expert-level speakers, ample networking opportunities, and a live YouTube filming with Rob, this event captures all the facets of a successful Airbnb business—in one place.

Meet the Host

Rob Abasolo

Rob Abasolo has been a real estate investor in the short-term rental space for the last five years. He recently quit his full-time job in advertising to pursue a career in real estate and content creation. In January 2020, he started the Robuilt YouTube channel—where he showcases his tiny places and unique spaces to an audience of over 200,000 subscribers. Rob is also the host of Bigger Pockets—the largest real estate podcast in the world. As of today, Rob owns 36 short-term rentals with plans to double his rental portfolio within the next year.

Speakers

Pace Morby

How To Build a Million Dollar Portfolio with $0

Pace Morby is an entrepreneur and real estate investor who owns over 1,800 multi and single family doors, owns 100 mobile home parks, wholesales 300 deals and does 50 fix and flips each year. He is the creator of Sub2 where he teaches creative financing to thousands of students. Pace is also the TV Host of Triple Digit Flip on A&E, has over 200,000 followers on his YouTube channel and recently published the New York Times Bestselling book Cash Without Wealth! When he’s not doing a deal, he is spending time with his beautiful wife, Laura, and children Asher, Corbin and Monday.

Jesse Vasquez

How to crush your portfolio 30-days at a time

You may know Jesse as the king of Mid-Term Rentals. With over 20 properties in his portfolio serving health care professionals across California and Texas, Jesse was able to leave his high earning corporate career to go all-in on real estate. Using his unique approach, Jesse is able to maximize revenue by going beyond Furnished Finder and coaches others how to scale their own mid-term rental business. Jesse is local to the Central Valley of California and lives with his family.

Mercedes Sanchez

How to Build a 6-Figure Co-hosting Business

Mercedes is a real estate agent and founder of MBX Homes, a hospitality-forward STR management company that will hit over $1 million in sales. Based in Los Angeles, MBX currently manages 40 luxury STR rentals and numerous mid-term rentals used for large scale commercial productions and films for companies such as Nintendo, HBO and various musicians.

Having graduated with a hospitality degree from UNLV and becoming a top-producing Event and Sales Manager for Four Season, Mercedes now applies her skillset to growing MBX Homes and teaching others how to start a six-figure service based business, with zero down!

 

John Bianchi

The way you’ve been analyzing Airbnbs is costing you thousands

As Head of Data at Techvestor, John Bianchi has successfully directed over $80M+ investments into strong cashflowing Airbnbs across the country. As a master of deciphering complex datasets, John also provides Airbnb data consulting services to help other investors achieve their investment goals. When he's not poring over data, he's usually having drinks on the boat or snowboarding the mountains, depending on the weather!

Mark Simpson

101 Ways to Boost Your Direct Bookings in the Next 7 Days

An influential figure, Mark Simpson (Founder of Boostly) is the first British speaker at Hostcon. Garnering recognition as one of the "Top 20 Most Influential People in the Vacation Rental Industry Globally", he is determined to make a substantial impact. His current mission? To empower over 1 million operators to escalate their direct bookings. His story is a tale of professional triumphs and a testament to the power of ambition and resilience. Indeed, Mark Simpson isn't merely a game-changer - he's a game re-definer.

Avery Carl

How to Choose the Best Recession Resistant Vacation Markets

Avery is the author of Amazon’s best-seller, Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth: Your Guide to Analyzing, Buying, and Managing Vacation Properties, and the host of The Short Term Show podcast. She is also the CEO of The Short Term Shop, the country’s top short-term rental real estate agency and has connected investors with over 5,000 cash-flowing short-term rental properties since 2018. She scaled from a 37k salary to over 220 doors in 5 years by strategically investing in short-term and vacation rentals. Her goal is to help as many investors reach financial independence through short-term rental investing as possible.

Kristie Wolfe

Creating Memories: The Art of Experience Design

Kristie Wolfe is a builder & designer who crafts some of Airbnb's most sought-after and unique stays has earned her thousands of 5-star reviews over the last decade. Her tree houses, hobbit holes, and even a potato hotel have made her famous for her unique stays and rumor has it she created the OMG category on Airbnb. Her mission is to create unforgettable guest experiences, not just accommodations.

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Ready to LAUNCH your next, or first, short-term rental…

AND achieve the life, freedom, and happiness you deserve?
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Meet The Speakers

Rob Abasolo

How To Get in the Game and Think Like an Investor

Rob Abasolo has been a real estate investor in the short-term rental space for the last five years. He recently quit his full-time job in advertising to pursue a career in real estate and content creation. In January 2020, he started the Robuilt YouTube channel—where he showcases his tiny places and unique spaces to an audience of over 200,000 subscribers. Rob is also the host of Bigger Pockets—the largest real estate podcast in the world. As of today, Rob owns 36 short-term rentals with plans to double his rental portfolio within the next year.

Kai Andrew

How to "Land Hack" and Turn an Okay Deal Into a Great One 

After studying business and construction engineering in undergrad Kai got involved with start-ups right away. However, he quickly found, like most people, that he was struggling working for someone else and making others rich (trading time for money). And that was the start of his entrepreneurial journey, which includes moving around the world, obtaining his MBA and (of course) lots of short-term rentals and shipping containers. Nowadays, he’s committed to helping, connecting and teaching others how they can use real estate as a means to create dream income properties and replacing their day jobs, so they can focus on their own lifestyles.

Heather Blankenship

How to Maximize Cashflow in RV & Mobile Home Parks

Heather primarily focuses on RV Parks, Mobile Home Parks, Motels, and section 8 Multifamily properties with a $30M+ real estate portfolio. With nearly 11 years of experience as an investor and niche broker covering RV Parks and Mobile Home Parks, Heather has supported nearly $300M of transactions in the industry. Since leaving her Managing Director role at a highly regarded brokerage, Heather has begun charting her own path as an educator in the RV Park Industry, as well as founded a company bringing together women in entrepreneur and business. Heather has expanded her investing footprint through Blank Capital, a fund designed to provide passive investors meaningful exposure to the enormous upside in the RV Park space.

Matt Bontrager

Leveraging the Tax Code to Keep More of Your Hard Earned Money 

Matt Bontrager is a Certified Public Accountant, guest speaker, and Managing Partner of TrueBooks, a CPA firm that has grown to 16 team members all with the goal of helping real estate investors, high net worth individuals, and small businesses lower their tax bill through tax strategy and proper planning. Since the firm's inception in 2020, it’s scaled to seven figures in annual gross revenue and has saved clients an estimated $6MM in tax savings. His focus is to continue scaling TrueBooks and helping clients grow their wealth through tax savings.

Amy Mahjoory

How To Fund All of Your Deals with "Other People's Money"

Amy is a Real Estate Investor & Educator, HGTV Personality, Best-Selling Author and Keynote Speaker. Over the last 10 years, she has raised millions of dollars in private money for hundreds of real estate transactions all over the country and is a part owner in over $500 million dollars worth of commercial real estate. Now, Amy changes lives by coaching her students to transform their mindset so that they feel confident raising private money. She takes the fear out of raising capital and breaks her systems down into a methodical and easy to follow steps that don’t require friends or family members. Amy lives in Austin, TX with her husband and daughter.

Sahil Mehta

How to Scale to Millions No Matter Your Age or Experience

Sahil Mehta has been in the real estate industry since the ripe age of 18. While completing his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, he began his career as a realtor and entered the world of real estate investing shortly thereafter. In 2017,  Sahil purchased his first rental property with his brother. Since then they have grown their real estate portfolio to over $16 million, producing over $100K/mo in rental revenue. Sahil is now focusing his efforts as the Director of Operations and Business Development at Valiance Capital, a real estate private equity firm focused on value-add and development of multifamily and student housing with $200 million AUM and another $200M in the pipeline.

King Malaki

How to Invest in This Hidden Gem - Opportunity Zones

A native Houstonian, King Malaki Sims is a CPA with over 20 years of experience in the public audit, private, non-profit and governmental sectors.  In his spare time, he parlays his knowledge of the tax code to manage his family real estate portfolio and development company, which focuses on building affordable homes to rent in Opportunity Zones.  For the past decade, these companies have served long-term, short-term and transitional housing tenants, primarily in the inner city of Houston.

Details

3 Value Packed Days

Expert Knowledge

Hear from 7+ boss-level speakers that will show you their strategies for getting ahead and making money 💰 in the rental space.

Networking

Experience what it’s like to hang out with 300 of your best friends, if all your best friends were Airbnb hosts (we like to call them Airbnbesties). You’ll have tons of opportunities to make new connections and maybe a business partner or two.

Live YouTube with Robuilt

Get a behind the scenes look at how Rob creates his YouTube videos, and witness the bloopers live! 😅

Build Your Business

Learn, network, and discover how the best in the biz make money moves in the short-term rental industry.

Tickets

General Admission

$997

Ticket includes:

  • Welcome party
  • Access to all of the speaker sessions
  • Icebreakers &  Networking
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VIP Package

$1,997

Everything in General Admission Plus:

  • Exclusive TopGolf 
    Pre-event with Rob
  • VIP Lunch on Sunday
  • Special Access to Breakout Rooms with Speakers
  • Lifetime Access to all Host Con recordings
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MVP Package

$2,997

Everything in VIP Plus:

  • Private Dinner Party with Rob
  • Reserved Front Row Seating 
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Schedule

DAY 1

Saturday, October 28 


 
11:30AM

VIP Top Golf ⛳️

 
6:00PM

Registration & Welcome Party 🍻

Day 2

Sunday, October 29


 
8:00AM

Check-in / Registration
& Light Snacks ☕️
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9:10AM

Rob's Keynote ✨

 
10:00AM

Networking 101 & Icebreakers 🙋

 
11:10AM

Speaker Session #1 🎤

 
12:00PM

VIP Lunch, Catered Lunch & Networking Served 🌮

 
1:10PM

Speaker Session #2 🎤 

 
2:10PM

VIP Shout Outs 👥

 
3:10PM

Speaker Session #3 🎤

 
4:10PM

Rob's Final Speech 🎤

 
5:00PM

VIP Breakout Room 👥

 
6:30PM

MVP Dinner 🌯

Day 3

Monday, October 30


 
8:00AM

Buffet Breakfast & Networking 🥞

 

9:15AM

The Price is Right Game Show: STR Edition 🧑‍💻

 
10:10AM

Speaker Session #4 🎤 

 

11:10AM

Speaker Session #5 🎤 


12:00PM

Lunch & Networking 🌮

Independent Lunch & Networking Time
 
1:40PM

Speaker Session #6 🎤 

 
3:00PM

Speaker Session #7 🎤  

 
4:00PM

Watch Rob Shoot a Live YouTube Video with guest! 🎥

 
5:00PM

VIP Breakout Room 👥

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Thanks to our Sponsors

💎  Platinum Sponsors  💎


Venue

The conference will take place at the C. Baldwin in Houston, TX. Stay right at the heart of all the action, or feel free to find a unique Airbnb nearby!

Testimonials

ACTION STEPS AFTER 1ST HOSTCON

Expanding my network

Generate capital

 
 

ACTION STEPS AFTER 1ST HOSTCON

Leverage relationships I’ve made at Host Con

 

BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

Make lasting connections

Form friendships

Learn about new areas to invest

 

 
 

BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

Network, Network, Network!

The smaller and more tight-knit the group the better

Rob put together a fantastic group

It’s been amazing!

 

BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

Entire community of people

You’re not alone.

Most inspiring thing you could ever ask for!

 

Testimonials

 

ACTION STEPS AFTER 1ST HOSTCON

Expanding my network

Generate capital

 

ACTION STEPS AFTER 1ST HOSTCON

Leverage relationships I’ve made at Host Con

 

 

BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

Make lasting connections

Form friendships

Learn about new areas to invest

 

 

BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

Network, Network, Network!

The smaller and more tight-knit the group the better

Rob put together a fantastic group

It’s been amazing!

 

 

BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

Entire community of people

You’re not alone.

Most inspiring thing you could ever ask for!

What are you waiting for?

Make 2023 the year your short-term rental business explodes!
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Questions?

We are making this to be an extraordinary event and want you to join us! Got questions?

Email us at [email protected] and we’d be happy to help!

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