Your clients should focus on properties with significant equity potential and work with experienced contractors to stay within budget and timeline—especially with borrowed funds on the line.Avoiding Bad Deals - Encourage them to work with experienced agents, contractors, or mentors and always run multiple scenarios, including worst-case outcomes, to stress-test their numbers.Reserves - Advise your clients to keep a reserve fund separate from their loan for emergencies, unexpected expenses, or delays.

Even with 200 STRs it isn't a broad enough cross section to assume the changes.You would need to have millions of data points to show the trend IMHO. 

Run owner reports.After testing a few apps, one should stand out for you.

Just talk to your PM or realtor to dig the data up if you do not know it.

For market pricing, I collect LTR data from BP rent calculator and multiply by 1.5x.

The course is long and test is difficult so make sure you are committed.

The data points they use made me feel like it got my pricing right and I feel much more confident about what my nightly and seasonal rates are now. 

I use quicken and enter all categorized data the beginning of each month.

Check out this recent rental report from Zumper ranking cities in the US with the highest rents. https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data/ Welcome to BP - do you work exclusively with investors as a broker or is it just a good portion of your clientele?  

That being said, its probably still worth looking at the data at those prices