You find the property. We pay you for it. No capital, no credit, no lease in your name.
A rate posted per market before you do any of the work, and locked to your submission the moment you make it. You are paid when a property clears our checks and goes live, whether or not anyone ever signs a lease on it.
This is sourcing work. It is phone calls and follow-up with property owners, and it rewards people willing to be told no in the morning and call again in the afternoon. Payment is flat and never depends on a lease being signed. Nothing here is a promise of income.
Who this works for, and who it doesn't
We would rather tell you now than twenty minutes into a call. If the second list sounds like you, this is not your offer and there are no hard feelings.
A fit if
- ✓You are willing to have conversations with property owners. That is the job. Everything else is support around it.
- ✓You want to be in this business without a lease in your name, a deposit, or a mortgage application.
- ✓You already run short-term rentals, or tried to, and the property was the wall you hit. You know what an operator wants, which is the expensive half of this skill.
- ✓You can give it real hours a week and keep going after the first stretch of no.
Not a fit if
- ✕You want something passive. This pays for work you do, and no part of it runs without you.
- ✕You want a guaranteed number. The rate per property is posted; how many you bring in is entirely down to you.
- ✕You are not willing to be on the phone. There is no version of this that is only email.
- ✕You want us to find the property for you. That is the other side of the marketplace, and it is a different service.
First list sounds like you? The rest of this page is exactly how the model works.
How the model works, start to finish
Four steps, and the order matters. Nothing here asks you to buy, lease or manage anything.
The demand is already posted
Operators say what they are looking for, market by market, on the board. You are not going out to find a customer. The request is sitting there before you make your first call, and the rate for that market is posted next to it.
You find a property and approach the owner
Ordinary listings and ordinary owners. None of this is off-market or secret. What decides the outcome is which owner you approach and what you ask them, and that is what the training is actually about.
You get the approval in writing
This is the skill and it is the whole job. Not a verbal yes. A document naming the unit that says short-term rental specifically, obtained before anyone signs anything. Most people in this business have never seen one.
It clears our checks, and you are paid
The same gates every time: permission in writing, short-term named, the city allows it at that address, and the approval predates any signature. It clears, it goes live, and you are paid at the rate posted before you started. Not a commission, and never contingent on a lease being signed.
Owners do say yes to this
Real messages from property owners about units on Zi-Find. Some came to the marketplace on their own. The skill you would be learning is how to get the same answer out of the ones who haven't, which is the part almost nobody can do.
Two ways in
The full programme
For people treating this as the thing they do:
- ✓The sourcing track, the Market Read, and the full landlord conversation
- ✓A seat on the board, with the posted rate for every market you work
- ✓A larger monthly allowance of properties you can work at once, over a longer access term
- ✓Written feedback on every property you submit, cleared or refused
- ✓Bi-weekly coaching, daily office hours, and modules that move when the market does
The number of properties a month and the length of access both come with this tier.
The shorter run
For people who want to prove it to themselves first:
- ✓The same training, the same board, the same posted rates
- ✓A smaller monthly allowance over a shorter access term
- ✓The same written feedback on everything you send in
Same work, same rates. Fewer properties at a time and a shorter runway.
Neither price is on this page on purpose. Which tier fits depends on the hours you actually have and the market you would start in, so we go through it on the call rather than guessing at it here.
Properties that got taken
Signed leases and matches from operators who took properties through Zi-Find. This is the far end of what you would be bringing in, and the reason there is already somebody waiting for it. Screenshots shared with permission.
Individual results shown with permission. Results vary and are not typical — nothing on this page is a promise of income.
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Coaches and operators talking about sourcing through Zi-Find — unedited.
Vivian Yip
Mid-Term Rentals Coach
Jerrell Dinkins
Airbnb Coach & Expert
Jared Curry
Entrepreneur
Jazmin Jones
Airbnb Co-Host
Ciera Stipe
STR Entrepreneur
Landon Brazile — Founder, Zi-Find
Who's teaching this
I was a landlord before I was an operator. I already owned a duplex when a friend explained rental arbitrage to me on a Friday. I spent that weekend calling landlords and by Monday I had my first yes, and I thought that meant it was easy.
Then I started helping people. Dozens of them, free, over about five months. They nearly all got stuck in exactly the same place: they could not talk to a landlord the way I could talk to a landlord. The information was never the bottleneck. Access was.
So I stopped competing for properties and started connecting them. That is the whole idea of sitting in the middle. You are not the operator and you are not the landlord, you are the person who gets the approval that neither side had.
I built Zi-Find because finding owners who will actually approve subleasing is the hardest problem in this space and nobody was solving it at scale. Then thirteen coaching programs started sending us their highest-paying students to source for. That is the part I did not plan, and it is why the standards are what they are.
This programme is the other side of that. We need properties, you can go and get the approval, and we pay a posted rate for every one that clears. That is the entire arrangement, and it is why I can be straight with you about who it does not suit.
We work with you until you're paid
If you do the work and a property has not yet cleared, you do not get handed off and you do not get told your access ran out. We keep working with you until one does: the coaching, the office hours, and the written feedback on every submission continue.
To be precise about what that is. It is a guarantee about our effort, not about your earnings. We cannot make the calls for you, and how much you do is the part that decides your outcome. Nothing on this page is a promise of income.
Straight answers
Zi-Find does. Not an operator, not a landlord, and not a client you had to go out and find. Your only counterparty is the platform, so there is no invoice to chase and nobody to sell.
What actually happens on the call
- ✓Where you're starting from. What you do now, how many hours you genuinely have, and whether you've tried anything in this space before.
- ✓Which market you would work first, and an honest read on whether it is a good one to start in.
- ✓What the programme is and what it costs. We go through the number on the call rather than on a page.
- ✓Whether it fits at all. If we don't think it does, we say so and point you at the free tools instead.
Twenty minutes, nothing to prepare. Come with a city in mind and it will be worth considerably more.