But for many locations, that's just not going to happen.I reckon your main investment goal should be to find deals/bargains that give you instant equity, even if you're then out of pocket each month. 

And we price it accordingly lower.So I had a young lady do an Instant Booking a couple months ago for her and 3 of her friends.

and instantly know where my info is coming from, we LITERALLY are THE authority, lol.

We will have instant equity of approx 200K once the project is complete.

My primary need was instant reaction time which necessitated "checkbook control."

It seems when we add the words "Real Estate" too "Investment" some paradox opens and brains are instantly scrambled as for some reason, all the obvious common sense of real estate, or investing, it's thought it all changes if two are together..... 

When you walk into a rehab potential which has 2 bathrooms, you know instantly in your head you have a $20k tally started.

For some magic reason, new investors think all the have to do is move to a market that some guru called hot and their business will be instantly launched.

Vrbo still keeps my calendar slam full without direct book turned on so I will just leave it off.Thanks, yes, I turned off Instant Book with AIR so that their people will have to message me first, that should take care of it, but they say you lose 30% of bookings...?

A better strategy would be to find a good deal at the buy, so you're making that money going into the deal (i.e. buying a property that's worth $200K for $160, resulting in instant equity).