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Real Estate Rockstars Podcast

1293: How Connor Cushman Built a Profitable Short-Term Rental from Scratch

Real Estate Rockstars Podcast

Aaron Amuchastegui

Investing, Careers, Business

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to grow your real estate business faster? In this episode, Connor Cushman dives into the strategies that helped him grow from getting licensed to managing short-term rentals and building a thriving business. He discusses the power of networking, the effectiveness of open houses, and why a strong CRM system is essential for follow-ups. Connor shares valuable lessons from a real estate conference, emphasizing the importance of hiring, delegation, and systems for scaling. He also breaks down market trends, the challenges of running a sustainable business, and why integrity and financial discipline are key to long-term success. Listen now to get the full scoop! Links: Follow Connor Cushman on Instagram Follow Southern Stays on Instagram Check out Cushman Homes Follow Sara Denig on Instagram Follow Christina Leavenworth on Instagram Follow Aaron Amuchastegui on Instagram Get Hundreds of FREE Real Estate Tools From the Toolbox Join the 2025 Real Estate Rockstars Mastermind!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, real estate rock stars. This is Aaron and Mucci Steggi. I just got to interview Connor

0:03.6

Cushman from Cushman Homes. He is the best short-term rental operator in North Georgia,

0:09.1

a successful real estate agent. Him and I have a really funny story. We met four or five

0:12.9

years ago on Instagram. He replied to one of my stories. We started chatting after that while

0:18.3

he was building his real estate business. He even attended our mastermind

0:21.4

last year out in Austin. So another one of those people that I met online that have become friends.

0:26.2

So proud of this guy and what he's accomplished, just wait till you hear these tactics of how you can

0:31.3

steadily grow a business and how he was able to get five deals in his first three months when he

0:37.1

was doing it like in college,

0:39.0

like on the side. I think the methods are great. I think anyone can follow it. And if you're looking

0:43.4

to do five more deals this year, listen to this podcast and it's going to help. Without further ado,

0:47.4

here's my interview with. Connor, what's up, man, the I'm glad to finally have you on here. How are you?

1:08.4

I'm great. I'm great. It's been almost a year since I saw you in person.

1:13.0

Yeah, so we met a year ago. We've been talking online in one form or another for, I feel like a

1:21.6

long time, like the least a couple years. Do you remember where that contact first would have started,

1:28.8

where you first connected with me? I should have, I should have figured that out before we got

1:33.3

on this, this podcast. But I do think it's been at least, at least three years or so since we've

1:39.1

been messaging here and there on Instagram. And it's always cool when someone like you, who you who it's easy to put you on a pedestal,

1:47.0

someone like you is accessible through the DMs on Instagram. And I'm always,

1:52.4

I'm always pleasantly surprised by the way you interact and, and show up on Instagram for

1:58.5

for us average Joe's like me. Yeah, we've had some fun conversations on

2:02.7

there. Well, you're not average anymore or you weren't average then, but the, but I love,

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