Andres Martinez

A few years ago I was waiting tables in the DFW area, making around $4,000 a month. Decent money for the job, but I was trading every hour for a paycheck. I discovered co-living real estate — the idea of renting a house by the room instead of to a single family — and something clicked. The math was dramatically better than traditional rentals.

The problem was I had no capital. No savings. No W2 impressive enough for a bank. So I didn't use a bank. I found private money partners — people with capital but no time — and structured 50/50 deals. They fund the acquisition. I handle everything else. We split the net cashflow.

In under 2 years, I went from zero to 74 doors across 10 properties in Arlington, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, and North Richland Hills. I quit my restaurant job at 30. Now I run Lone Star Rooms — my operating company — at 97% occupancy.

But the real breakthrough wasn't the doors. It was the systems. I realized that every co-living operator I met was drowning in texts, spreadsheets, and manual processes. So I built an AI-powered property management system specifically designed for room rentals. It handles tenant communication, maintenance triage, rent collection, vendor coordination, and daily operations — all automated. No one else in this space has anything like it.

Now I teach everything I know — for free — inside Coliving Freedom Unlocked. The community, the tools, the systems, the deal calculators, the Coliving Blueprint. All of it. Because the co-living model works, and more operators should have access to it.