All Forum Posts by: Dave Stokley

 its a no brainer if you travel for work and stay in Hotels they beat any air bnb or vrbo hands down.  the points you earn along with CC points end up with 5 to 10 nights free per year so for me example going to portugal this year and get 5 days free at a TOP end hotel that would cost over 600.00 a night. just no comparison for the business traveller with all the perks hotels give you. Only way for me personally that I would choose an air bnb or vrbo is if we had a large group which i never have.. or like talked about rural Montana or other areas were there are no hotels.  Plus for me with my status Free breakfast  LOL

I noticed this with VRBO about a month back. Actually took 2-3 clicks to get to the final out the door price, and it was well over double the nightly rate all in. 

On a related note, Hotels dot com also gutted their "stay 10 nights, 1 night free" program, which was basically a 10% rebate/dividend. It was incredible if you traveled for work and had control over how you booked. Hot a few dozen free hotel nights for personal use over the years. Now you only get 2%. They spun is a win for the consumer, but when I tried to cash in the points it didn't even work on at least half of the places I tried to book . . . WTF?

Dumbest part is that I was looking forward to cancelling my hotels account, but not I can't because I have a VRBO owner account tied to the same email, so I would basically be deleting my VRBO listing in the process. Absurd. 

The Govt can do whatever it likes. You can fight them. I'd hire an attorney.

Good luck to you!

Turn-key with a management company?  Cash flow will likely be zero.

The STR secret is out. If you want good cashflow you need to be looking at value-add and/or self-management.

There are still places out there where I'm sure you can cashflow with turn-key and a PM, but it's not going to be a big return.