How to launch your first middleman business in your first 60 days — without owning, renting, or managing a property.
The 60-day clock starts the day you make your first call.
Watch the free training to see the exact path — no property, no experience, and no money needed to start.
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The training above is only step one. If it's a good fit, apply and show us why you'd be a great fit to join.
Who this works for, and who it doesn't
We would rather you take yourself out now than find out in month two. If the second list sounds like you, take the free tools and go and use them. No hard feelings, and we mean that.
A fit if
- ✓You are capable and you know it. You have income, or a job, or you have just retired, and none of that is the thing standing in your way.
- ✓You are done being priced out. Every model you looked at wanted a deposit, a mortgage, or a lease in your name. This one wants none of them.
- ✓Your time is limited and you want it to count. This is real conversations with owners, not a hundred dials a day.
- ✓You have never done anything in real estate. Most people starting here have not, and it is not what decides the outcome.
Not a fit if
- ✕You want something passive. This is phone calls. Not a hundred a day, but real conversations with real people, and if picking up the phone is the thing you were hoping to avoid, this is the wrong room.
- ✕You are never going to hand the outreach to somebody else. You can do it yourself at the start, and plenty do, but if you will never hand the volume over, this stays small.
- ✕What you actually want is to own property. A portfolio in your name is a legitimate thing to want and it is a different path. Go and do that one.
- ✕You need the first one to land next week. A first cleared property is usually somewhere between thirty and ninety days.
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.
Real messages from property owners about units we found
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.
Properties our students found — connected to real Airbnb operators
Note: as a finder, these operators are people you never have to talk to. The model lets you find properties without ever finding a client. We are showing you these so you can see the finding itself is worth the work.
Individual results shown with permission. Results vary and are not typical — nothing on this page is a promise of income.
Industry experts trust us to source properties for their own clients
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.