The $600K Treehouse Earning $200K a Year | Dustin Feider E79

About this episode

Dustin Feider discusses how a unique treehouse can generate significant returns, outperforming traditional hotels.

In this episode, you'll discover how a single ultra-niche lodging unit can outperform a full hotel on cash-on-cash returns and what that signals for boutique investors paying attention. A treehouse designer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and HGTV joins us to break down the real numbers behind experiential lodging. Dustin Fighter has spent two decades building one-of-a-kind suspended structures, and his original pine cone treehouse, 60 feet in the air...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Russell

Guest: Dustin Feider

Topics covered

• ultra-niche lodging
• cash-on-cash returns
• boutique investors
• experiential lodging
• treehouse design

Keywords

• treehouse
• lodging
• investment
• cash-on-cash returns
• boutique hotels
• experiential lodging
• Dustin Feider

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, Architectural Digest, HGTV

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