From One Beach House to a 20-Person Custom Build: David Dodge on STR Portfolio Growth and Earning 1.4M Travel Points From Your Mortgage
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David Dodge discusses building a successful vacation rental portfolio and earning travel points through mortgage payments.
I today's episode, Jasper sits down with David Dodge, founder of OR Getaways and Freewyld RPM client, for a conversation about what it looks like to build a high-performing vacation rental portfolio from the ground up and a platform called Built that lets real estate investors earn travel points on their mortgage payments. David started in Lincoln City, Oregon in 2021 with one five-bedroom property. Three years later he is running a custom-built property that sleeps 20, a new development in progress, and a management company with two client properties. His portfolio is up 25% year over year, July over July. You will hear: How David went from one off-the-shelf five-bedroom to a custom-built 20-person property designed specifically for short-term rental performance Why larger properties produce dramatically better ROI in his market and how the Ebb and Flow duplex structure unlocks occupancy beyond Lincoln City's 16-guest cap What changed when he handed revenue management to Freewyld: the risk tolerance shift that turned available summer weekends into premium bookings instead of discounted last-minute fills How BILT works and why $22,000 in monthly mortgage spend generates 739,000…
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