Avery: Hey y’all, welcome back to another episode of The Short Term Show. Today I have Patryk Swietek. He told me the correct way to pronounce his name, and it’s impossible, so we’re not going to pronounce it like that.

Patryk: I’m Patryk Swietek, a real estate investor, short-term shop client, and host of The Patryk Real Estate Show, and I will let him take it from here.

Avery: Patryk, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself?

Patryk: Yeah, sure. So my background is very tech-oriented. I was starting companies since I was 14 years old, actually, so my first company was a game server company that I provided game service space across the world, basically, and made forty thousand dollars a year doing it. Not the traditional route for a high school student, but I was a failing high school student, so I didn’t really have good grades. And I thought that people really wanted to have somebody with real-world experience that provides real-world value. Colleges, newsflash, colleges don’t care about that, so there I was. I couldn’t really get into a college, but eventually, got good grades, got into a college, did that whole thing, was in tech for a while, started building a bunch of tech companies, raised Venture Capital, did that whole thing, and then didn’t really work out. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it was. Entrepreneurship is a lot harder, as you know, Avery, and yeah.

Patryk: Eventually, I moved to LA, and I started for Avance Day, and that was Avanti’s, uh, Airbnb Arbitrage company. They had around 200 units. I helped them scale to a thousand-plus with, I was a product manager there, so definitely touched every part of the business, and that’s really where I fell in love with short-term rentals.

Avery: I didn’t know that you worked for Avance Day. That’s interesting. So where did you grow up? I thought you grew up in LA.

Patryk: No, I didn’t. I’m not an LA boy. I’m Chicago-born and raised.

Avery: I love Chicago so much. Yeah, Midwesterners, so we got to represent. I am married to a Midwesterner, so you guys certainly represent.

Patryk: But I do, I do love going to Chicago. It’s like, uh, Chicagoans are gonna hate me for saying this, but it’s like a cleaner, more easy-to-deal-with New York.

Patryk: And better pizza, don’t forget about that.

Avery: Oh yeah, I do. I do think that. I prefer Chicago pizza to New York pizza.

Patryk: No, that is a very controversial thing to say,

Avery: Patryk. I think you just lost my New York card right there.

Patryk: Yeah, you just lost all your New York followers there. You got it. It just drops.

Avery: Yeah, I just like the deep dish better. 

Patryk: Yeah, I agree, and I will be on the same boat as you. The food in Chicago is unparalleled, and I will always say this forever, that Chicago in the summer is the best city, but nine months of the year, it’s not summer, so nine months of the year, it’s a living hell.

Avery: And I don’t like to be cold, so… I think I’ve only been in the summertime, so maybe that’s why I like it so much.

Avery: Yeah, exactly. You know, that’s usually what it is.

Avery: Okay, awesome. So I want to hear about working for Avance Day because it’s really interesting to me when someone…