Best Rental Arbitrage Course
Honest Comparison

1. Is the price on the website?

Sean's courses range from $174 for RE:Algorithm to $180 for BIG DATA, then $410 for Target Price, $525 for Pricing Masterclass, and $800 for the Closers Crash Course. Every single price is published right on rakidzich.com/courses for anyone to see.

10XBNB, on the other hand, says "Book a strategy call for current program options." There is no price listed anywhere on their page. Strategy calls exist as a sales funnel designed to overcome price objections in real-time, and programs that need a closer to sell are generally not priced for the buyer's benefit.

2. Can you get your money back?

Sean offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on his courses, and BNB Formula also provides a 30-day window.

By contrast, 10XBNB has no money-back guarantee stated anywhere on their comparison page or program materials. Meanwhile, Airbnb Empire Academy explicitly enforces a no-refund policy on programs that cost up to $25,000.

Think about it this way: if the program genuinely works, then a guarantee costs the provider nothing. And if it does not work, the guarantee protects the student. So the presence or absence of a refund policy tells you exactly who carries the risk.

3. How long have they been operating?

Sean started hosting in 2014, which means he has 11 consecutive years of active experience. That includes surviving the 2016 regulation wave, the 2020 COVID collapse, the 2022 supply surge, and the ongoing 2024 to 2025 margin compression where average daily rates dropped 4.2% while rents climbed 3.1%.

Shaun Ghavami of 10XBNB comes from a finance degree at UBC Sauder and a career as a banking director, and his total operating years are not published publicly. As for Derek Cheung at Empire Academy, he started in 2019, which means he has not yet operated through a genuine down market.

4. Can you verify the portfolio?

Sean's 300,000+ YouTube subscribers have watched him tour his units, share revenue screenshots, troubleshoot operations in real-time, and manage properties across 8 cities. This video library spans 11 years, so the portfolio is thoroughly documented rather than simply claimed.

Here is the difference: a line on a website saying "155+ properties" is a marketing claim, while a decade of video documenting those same properties is verifiable evidence.

5. Who surveyed the students?

10XBNB cites a "formal survey of 1,247 operators" and claims that "73% reached profitability within 90 days" along with "$2,100 average monthly profit per property."

That raises important questions. Who actually conducted the survey? Self-reported data from paying students contains inherent selection bias because students who quit or fail tend not to respond. And what definition of "profitability" was used? Does it mean revenue exceeding rent alone, or revenue exceeding rent plus furnishing, utilities, cleaning, software, insurance, and float combined?

For comparison, Sean's documented figure is $1.4 billion in collective student revenue across 5,000+ students in 76 countries. That number is larger because both the sample size and the timeframe behind it are significantly greater.

6. Do you have to buy everything?

10XBNB's comparison page calls Sean's modular structure "fragmentation" and implies that students need to buy four or five courses to get a complete education.

In reality, the opposite is true. A host who only needs pricing strategy pays $410 for Target Price instead of spending $5,000 or more on a bundle packed with beginner modules they will skip. Modularity is ultimately respect for the student's level and wallet. The all-in-one model, by contrast, forces beginners and advanced operators into the same funnel because the funnel itself needs the revenue.

And for students who do want the full system, the flagship Cracking Superhost program includes all course materials as bonuses, meaning RE:Algorithm ($174 value), Pricing Masterclass ($525 value), and Target Price ($410 value) are all bundled in, along with 1-on-1 mentorship and access to all 7 named specialist coaches.

Why This Matters

The best STR educators get pulled away from operations by their education business. Sean's 7 specialist coaches handle student needs, which frees him to keep operating 155 properties across 8 cities. Students learn from a team, not one person stretched thin. Every coach is named and documented in the full review.

The Benchmark

Competitor Cheetah (B&B University) charges $14,000 per year for weekly group calls plus one accountability call. Sean's coaching starts at $3,500 with 12-hour open sessions, all 7 specialists, and a "Succeed Now Pay Later" model: 50% upfront, 50% after you hit your goal.