WHY I BUILT THIS
I was an early Airbnb employee.
The IPO changed everything.
So did the tax bill.
When Airbnb went public, the number next to my name was more than I ever imagined possible. And honestly? I wasn’t prepared for what came with it. A tax bill I hadn’t planned for. I’d earned it, yes. But the gap between earning it and scrambling to figure out how to pay for it without selling everything, without just getting caught in this endless loop… that’s where the real work began.
I talked to everyone. My financial advisor, accountants, tax strategists, anyone who was doing anything smart with their money and willing to talk about it. I was trying to find a smarter path. And it was truly mind-blowing how much is available to you if you actually lean in to understand.
Here’s what got me: I worked at Airbnb, and nobody ever taught us this. Nobody said, “Hey, short-term rental hosting could be a tax strategy.” I had to figure out on my own that I could buy a home in a place I love, Sea Ranch, invest in renovating it, and use it to qualify as a real estate professional, which actually reduced my taxes significantly. But it’s so much more than a tax play. It’s an asset I can give to my kids one day. It generates income. It pays for itself. Hosting isn’t easy, but once you get through that first year, you can streamline it quite a bit.
When all of a sudden I was saving hundreds of thousands of dollars, my financial advisor said it was time to diversify off my Airbnb position completely. So I did it again. A beach cottage in Cape Cod, in a place we also love. Now I have two properties that really pay back for me, and honestly, it’s only year one where you have to deal with the hassle. I was more than willing to deal with that hassle for the tax benefits. And then I started realizing there were way more opportunities to get really strategic.
This doesn’t mean I don’t want to pay my fair share. Of course I do. But I also want to retain as much wealth as I can for my family. I’m an immigrant, and every dollar matters.
When I started talking to my friends about all of this, none of them knew either. All of us were struggling with the same things. And I decided to do something about it.
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Early Airbnb Employee · Superhost · Founder, Unlevered
THE STRATEGY IN PRACTICE
These properties are the tax strategies. Guests help pay for them.
These two beautiful homes save me $200K+ yearly in the tax year I sold stock. I manage them myself, and it enables me to qualify for Real Estate Professional status, saving us hundreds of thousands a year on million dollar incomes. Every appliance, every piece of furniture, every renovation dollar was run through the same analysis Unlevered now does for you.
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