One of my favorite authors, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, sold me on the concept of Skin in the Game and holding all pundits accountable for prior predictions, myself included. 

While many gurus glorify the strategies they’re selling through courses or books, methods like out of state investing aren’t easy and can put you in a tough financial spot if you’re not careful.

Don't know about anyone else, but I feel like my personal daily battle is between doing what is urgent and fuels my raging undiagnosed ADHD, or what is actually important.I've done a ton of work on this over the past almost 4 years, and still am nowhere that I think I need to be, but I'm at least getting to a level of awareness I don't think I ever had before and that is a win in my book.  

I suspect that I get substantially more multigeneration reunion-type bookings than most people in my Airbnb.

John has released books & does case studies regularly.

I saw someone post in a group who I think is a schmuck brag about hitting a specific figure for their training and I just shook my head - like wow - this person is a great sales person and just steals the same lines from the business book about working hard and throwing out some slick slogans - but man oh man - when real estate gets hard people move to being a guru - just look at FB ads right now - many are not funds anymore but how to raise money, how to do X.

I'm making great profits off them, but I'm having issues with my m-th bookings and I would like to raise my rates.

The lender Bank was being bought by a larger and needed the non-performing loan off of the books made the deal even sweeter. 

What is everyone's favorite form of creative financing (seller finance, subto, etc..) ?

So don't leave anything in an MTR that is irreplaceable.In addition to security deposits, you can also use the AirCover program for Airbnb bookings and third party services like Waivo and Safely that provide mini insurance per booking.