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October 20, 2025 59 mins

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🎙️ Episode #453 – Student rentals can be cash flow machines... if you know how to manage the quirks. We're sharing our systems and design tricks that make investing in student rentals truly profitable. 

 

▶️ Next Episode: Why I’m Building Properties, NOT Buying (Build-to-Rent 101) 

 

🎬 Timestamps:

  • 00:00 - The Most Profitable Way to Be a Landlord
  • 00:49 - How Will Gaston went ALL IN
  • 04:31 - Portfolio growth breakdown
  • 06:43 - Overcoming occupancy ordinances
  • 11:53 - Pros and cons of student rentals
  • 13:38 - The economics of student rentals
  • 19:19 - Tenant screening philosophy
  • 21:29 - DON'T drop rents... Do this instead  
  • 24:43 - Purple Cow marketing
  • 34:17 - Who shouldn’t own student rentals
  • 39:26 - How to handle helicopter parents
  • 44:56 - How to turnover with staggered leases
  • 47:43 - Set expectations over Zoom calls
  • 48:46 - One lease to rule them all
  • 54:30 - Don't passively do student rentals
  • 59:06 - Why I’m building properties, not buying 

 

🔗 Connect with Will:

  • Will’s LinkedIn (Personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-g-008876130/ 

  • Will’s LinkedIn (Business): https://www.linkedin.com/company/gaston-real-estate-investments/ 

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