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#301 - Sam Wegert - How Co-Living Creates Affordable Housing and Big Profits

#301 - Sam Wegert - How Co-Living Creates Affordable Housing and Big Profits

Update: 2025-11-19
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Joining us on this episode of Living Off Rentals is someone who turned a simple idea—renting out spare rooms—into a thriving real estate empire.

Sam Wegert is the founder of Scale Your Co-Living Real Estate and leads the largest co-living mastermind in the world. He and his wife reached financial freedom by their early 20s and have since built a 2,500-door portfolio that blends strong cash flow with affordable housing.

Listen as he shares how he went from running a martial arts school at 16 to discovering the co-living model by accident, why shared housing can outperform traditional rentals, and what systems make it work sustainably at scale.

Enjoy the show!

Key Takeaways:

[00:00 ] Introducing Sam Wegert and his background

[02:27 ] Getting into real estate from the martial arts business

[03:50 ] Creating a second financial engine in your life

[07:10 ] How Sam discovered co-living by accident

[09:48 ] Why co-living outperforms Airbnb and traditional rentals

[13:43 ] Key differences between Sam's model and PadSplit

[14:40 ] Typical co-living members and lease lengths

[18:00 ] Handling tenant conflicts and maintaining harmony in shared homes

[20:17 ] Using membership agreements instead of traditional leases

[22:58 ] What rent pricing looks like in the co-living model

[27:18 ] Turning square footage into rentable rooms

[33:55 ] Can you resell co-living homes?

[36:32 ] The invoice authorization strategy

[39:34 ] Sam's advice for first-time real estate investors

[42:46 ] Connect with Sam Wegert

[43:08 ] Outro

Guest Links:

Website: https://scaleyourrealestate.com/ 

Show Links:

Living Off Rentals YouTube Channel – youtube.com/c/LivingOffRentals 

Living Off Rentals YouTube Podcast Channel - youtube.com/c/LivingOffRentalsPodcast 

Living Off Rentals Facebook Group – facebook.com/groups/livingoffrentals 

Living Off Rentals Website – https://www.livingoffrentals.com/ 

Living Off Rentals Instagram – instagram.com/livingoffrentals 

Living Off Rentals TikTok – tiktok.com/@livingoffrentals 

 

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#301 - Sam Wegert - How Co-Living Creates Affordable Housing and Big Profits

#301 - Sam Wegert - How Co-Living Creates Affordable Housing and Big Profits

Kirby Atwell