JF258: How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Using Airbnb

<p class="MsoNormal">Today’s Best Ever guest uses Airbnb to pay for his mortgage. What’s Airbnb? Well, he rents spare rooms out in his house to strangers from the internet. Sounds like the start of a horror movie, right? It’s NOT, because he has formed some incredible relationships, met some amazing people, and his guests pay his mortgage every month!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Best Ever Tweet:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I don’t believe mistakes are bad, because you can learn from them.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thomas Paterek’s real estate background:</p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style= "font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span>Lives in St. Petersburg, Florida</li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style= "font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><!--[endif]-->Has a property in St. Petersburg and rents it out via Airbnb</li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style= "font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">  </span></span><!--[endif]-->He is part of 5 non-profits and shapes surfboards</li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style= "font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span>Has recently been appointed a Super Host from Airbnb</li> </ul> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style= "text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style= "margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> <strong style= "margin: 0px; p