Airbnb Arbitrage as an experiment?

[Marcellus P McKinley]

Morning everyone,

       So I have been slowly starting to get my plan together for my real estate ventures, but I was talking to a family member the other day and they mentioned the concept of sub-letting a rented space for Airbnb. I inititally wasn't interested, but after thinking about it, it sounds like a great way to experiment with managing a property without investing a lot of initial capital to find if I like it, and then transition to buy-and-hold. Additionally, if I played my cards right, I would be able to gain enough capital to buy my first property. Has anybody pursued this as a lead in into buy and hold? or is this a too simplistic way of looking at it?