Real Estate Underground
Real Estate Underground
Ed Mathews
B-Class Property, A-Class Management: The Short-Term Rental Edge with Tim Hubbard
28 minutes Posted Jun 9, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Cold open "B-class property with A-class management"
REU intro
Meet Tim Hubbard & Corsley
Remote work as the forcing function for virtual operations
Why STR isn't just vacation rental...the urban thesis
Medical professionals, conferences, and the long-stay STR angle
Data-driven STR underwriting (occupancy + rate trends)
The buy box: budget, regulations, market selection
The B-class/A-class management thesis explained
What Corsley does (and what owners still own)
Lightning round —> Purpose: education
Lightning round —> Best advice: Dennis Waitley's "two choices"
Lightning round —> Mistake: under-budgeting renovations
Lightning round — Books: Who Not How + The Slight Edge
Lightning round — Defining success
Where to find Tim: corsley.com & Short Term Rental Riches
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Short-term rentals are supposed to be the most hands-on asset class in real estate. Tim Hubbard runs hundreds of them across the U.S. and multiple countries—without ever being on the ground.
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of Corzly, the virtual management company he built after 16 years of operating his own short-term rental portfolio from outside California, then outside the U.S. entirely. His team handles pricing, listings, guest communication, and back-end operations across Eastern Europe...