I built an income stream managing other people's Airbnb apartments.

Most people think you need millions of shillings to start earning from Airbnb. You don't. I started by helping property owners manage the furnished apartments they already had — handling guest communication, pricing, bookings, and day-to-day operations — and earning a commission on every stay.

If you're waiting until you can afford to buy property, you might be waiting years. There's another path — and it starts with someone else's empty apartment.

I'm a practising advocate in Nairobi as well as a working co-host, which means the system in this guide isn't just "what worked for me" advice — it's built with the same legal grounding I use for my own clients: how commissions should be structured, what a management agreement needs to cover, and where co-hosts typically expose themselves to risk.