I'm a café owner who bought our whole building. Renting out the top floors on Airbnb made me over $100,000 to support my business.

05/22/2025, 4:38 PM
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I'm a café owner who bought our whole building. Renting out the top floors on Airbnb made me over $100,000 to support my business.

Courtesy of Isreal Adeyanju

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Isreal Adeyanju, 32, a coffee shop owner and Airbnb host in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2023, Adeyanju and his friend Samuel Osei-Afriyie, both partial owners of Kọ Café, purchased the building where they had been leasing space for the coffee shop.

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