About this episode

Jeremy Rosen shares his journey from being a full-time nurse to building a successful short-term rental business with 70 properties.

He was working 80 hours every two weeks in a hospital ICU. Open heart surgery patients. Life or death. No room for error. And in the gaps between shifts, sometimes still in his scrubs, he was quietly building a short-term rental business that would set him free. In this episode, E sits down with Jeremy Rosen for one of the most honest W2-escape stories this show has ever told. Jeremy joined STR Secrets with 4 properties and a full-time nursing job he loved but knew he had to leave. He went from 4 to 8 to 12 to 20 properties, all while clocking 12-hour shifts at the VA. Then he merged his own company into Five Star Vacation Home Rentals, where he now owns the San Antonio division, part of a portfolio of 70 properties across Central Texas. And he finally walked away from nursing for good. Today, based in San Antonio, Texas, Jeremy focuses on revenue optimization, guest experience, property operations, and scaling high performing vacation rental portfolios. In this episode: → The exact mindset shift that took Jeremy from sick patients to happy guests, and the nurse's instinct that makes him a better host than most operators will ever be → How he used his days off, while everyone…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Sjogren

Guest: Jeremy Rosen

Topics covered

• short-term rentals
• nursing career
• entrepreneurship
• property management
• mindset shift

Keywords

• short-term rental
• nurse
• entrepreneur
• property portfolio
• revenue optimization
• guest experience
• business growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Five Star Vacation Home Rentals

Places: San Antonio, Central Texas, Texas

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