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making up to €15K/month in 2026.
Follow the exact process I use to get paid a commission on property I don't own.
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You're not buying property.
You're paid to run it.
An owner has an apartment sitting at 45% occupancy on a nightly rate they set three years ago. You take over the pricing, the listing, the guest communication and the turnovers. They keep the property. You keep a percentage of everything it earns, every month, for as long as you run it.
| Unit | Market | ADR | Occupancy | Gross / month | Your 18% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2BR city centre | Ghent | €118 | 76% | €2,690 | €484 |
| 1BR canal side | Utrecht | €134 | 81% | €3,258 | €586 |
| Studio near station | Antwerp | €89 | 84% | €2,243 | €404 |
| 3BR family flat | Rotterdam | €162 | 68% | €3,305 | €595 |
| 2BR old town | Porto | €106 | 88% | €2,798 | €504 |
| 1BR loft | Lisbon | €128 | 85% | €3,264 | €588 |
| Studio, business district | Brussels | €97 | 72% | €2,095 | €377 |
| 2BR seaside | Valencia | €111 | 79% | €2,631 | €474 |
| 8 units under management | 6 markets | €118 avg | 79% avg | €22,284 | €4,012 / mo |
No deposit. No lease. No rent risk. And unit two costs you one more conversation, not another €60,000.
Yes, this actually works.
Real Airbnb payout screens from units under management. Every figure below is after Airbnb's 15.5% host fee and the cleaning cost, so it is what actually lands in the account.
Screenshots from live listings in Antwerp. Individual results, and not a promise of what you will earn.
Welcome to HostPro Academy
If you're reading this with a full-time job and no property to your name, you're exactly who I built this for.
I've been running short-stay units long enough to know where people actually get stuck, and it's never the operations. Anyone can learn to run an apartment. What stops people is the first owner. Getting one person to hand you their property when you have no track record yet.
So that's what HostPro Academy is built around. Not a course to watch. A sequence to run, with the contracts, the scripts and the pricing already done for you, and a room full of people doing it in the same markets you are.
Some of our members are at one unit alongside their job. Some are past twenty and have hired their first assistant. Both started the same way, with one conversation.
On the call we'll look at your city, your hours and your capital, and I'll tell you straight whether this works where you are.
Rens Depraetere
Founder, HostPro Academy
A system. A community.
A business that pays you monthly.
Operators across Europe running short-stay portfolios without owning a single square metre of it.
Here's What You Get Inside
The 15-Level Video Course
Fifteen levels covering every part of a commission-based management business, from picking your market to running twenty units. Each level ends with the one thing you have to go do before the next.
Contracts, Scripts & Templates
The management agreement, the owner proposal, the outreach scripts, the pricing sheet, the monthly owner report and the guest message flows. Everything you'd otherwise pay a lawyer for or spend two months building.
The Private HostPro Community
Members across 11 European countries, sorted by market. Ask before you sign a bad agreement, and see what people in your own city are actually charging.
Weekly Live Calls With Rens
Weekly Q&A where you bring the owner conversation you're stuck on this week. Every call is recorded and available inside the platform.
HostPro Academy Curriculum
A step-by-step path from no units to a managed portfolio.
Updated for the 2026 rules across the main EU markets.
Part 1: The Model & Your Market
Before any outreach you decide where you operate, which unit type you want and what the owner actually gets. The wrong market costs you three months of polite rejections.
Lessons
- How commission management works, and how it differs from arbitrage
- Reading real occupancy and rate data for your city
- Choosing your unit type and your minimum viable market
- Registration, tourist tax and licensing per country
- Setting your commission, and what to never go below
Part 2: Signing Your First Owner
The whole business changes the moment one owner says yes. This part exists only to get that yes, on terms you can repeat.
Chapters
- Finding underperforming listings, four sourcing methods
- The outreach message that names their own numbers
- The owner call framework, start to close
- Handling "what if you're bad at this"
- The fee conversation, and the no-risk first agreement
- The management contract, reviewed for the EU market
Part 3: Launching The Listing
Your first month has to beat their last twelve. Here's how the handover runs, day by day.
Chapters
- Photography and the listing rewrite that lifts click-through
- Channel setup: Airbnb, Booking.com and direct
- The 7-day takeover checklist
- Cleaning partner selection and the backup layer
Part 4: Pricing & Revenue Management
The part that makes an owner keep you. A flat nightly rate through a shoulder season quietly costs them more than empty nights do.
Chapters
- Dynamic pricing setup, and the rules you override by hand
- Minimum stays, gap nights and shoulder seasons
- The monthly owner report that prevents every awkward call
- Raising your commission at renewal
Part 5: Operations That Run Without You
Unit one runs off your phone. At unit five, an unsystematised business becomes a second job.
Chapters
- Guest communication templates and automation
- The property management stack, and what it costs
- Damage, disputes and the 2am problems
- Hiring your first virtual assistant
Part 6: Scaling To 10+ Units
Units two through ten don't come from cold outreach. They come from the first owner.
Chapters
- The referral loop, and when to trigger it
- Working with agencies and building-level deals
- Operating a second market remotely
- Structuring the business, tax and insurance
The model is simple.
The first unit is not.
Almost nobody fails at running an apartment. People fail three steps earlier, and nearly always in the same three places.
Owners ignore a generic message
"I can manage your property" is what every aspiring manager sends. An owner who gets three of those a month deletes all three. What they answer is a message that names their listing, their current rate, and the number they're leaving on the table this quarter.
You have no track record yet, and it shows
Their real question is never "what's your fee". It's "what happens if you're bad at this". Without an agreement that removes that risk on paper, the honest answer is that they lose money and you disappear. That's why your first contract has to be structured differently from your tenth.
Month one goes badly and the unit is gone
If your first month under management is worse than their last month without you, there's no reference, no referral, and no unit two. Pricing is where that gets decided, not hospitality.
Here's how you'll reach €10,000/month
Step 1: Study the HostPro system
Fifteen levels, in order, nothing skipped. You get full support through the community and the weekly calls while you work through it.
Step 2: Lock your market and your offer
One city, one unit type, one commission structure, and a one-page proposal with the owner's own numbers on it.
Step 3: Sign your first owner
Most members get there in 2 to 6 weeks. The variable is outreach volume, not talent.
Step 4: Out-earn their old setup
You take a listing that underperforms and make month one better than their last twelve. That's what buys you the reference and the referral.
Step 5: Build the operations layer
Cleaning, pricing, guest comms and reporting run on systems, so unit five doesn't cost you five times unit one.
Step 6: Add units 2 through 20
At an average €480 per unit per month, twenty units is a €9,600 monthly business you can run with one assistant.
This isn't complicated. It's systems and execution, and the first owner is the only genuinely hard part. Do the work and you'll be rewarded.
An owner keeps you when the guests are happy
Rating is not a vanity number in this business. It is what keeps the calendar full, what lets you raise the nightly rate, and what makes the owner introduce you to the next one.
Guest reviews on managed listings, unedited. Guest names are as they appear publicly on Airbnb.
This is not for everyone
We turn people away on this call every week. Read both columns honestly before you take a slot.
Book the call if
- You can put 8 to 10 focused hours a week into this
- You can operate in a European market with real short-stay demand
- You're willing to have direct conversations with property owners
- You have a few thousand euro for setup, tools and insurance
- You want a business you run, not a product you buy
Don't book if
- You want income without any client contact
- You need the money this month
- You're looking for a course to watch, not a business to build
- You expect a guaranteed return, which nobody honest will give you
- You're not willing to register a business and handle the admin
FREE 30-MINUTE STRATEGY CALL
Your roadmap costs nothing
Your call today:
Free €250
One 30-minute video call with someone who runs units himself
- A written 90-day sequence for your specific market
- Real occupancy and rate data for your city, looked at live
- A straight answer on whether the model works where you are
- The legal and registration position for your country
- Yours to keep, whether or not you join
Here's every one of the 30 minutes:
00-05Where you are now. Capital, hours per week, your market, and whether you've spoken to an owner yet.
05-15What's blocking you. Usually outreach, credibility or pricing. The fix for each is completely different.
15-25Your 90-day sequence. Unit type, target owners, opening offer, and the order to do it in.
25-30Fit, honestly. If HostPro Academy suits you, you get the format and the price. If it doesn't, I'll tell you that instead.
No payment details required · Roughly half of these calls end in a no
Frequently Asked Questions
Further questions? Email Systemen@hostproacademy.com
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