"The harvest is plenty but the workers are few" Mt. 9:37.

Like I said, in the "what you gonna do" category and I do agree that the OTAs are going to drive far more business than I ever could, even if I'm harvesting guest data diligently and have a good return guest base. 

There is still some food on the table, and your contractor and property manager are the 2 main players that help you harvest it.

I was getting folks living in units periodically, usually during fruit harvest here.  

*knock on wood* I'm working on harvesting some equity to put to work in a landlord-friendly state like FLFL: so I've heard!

--> Armstrong Prime Harvest Oak Oceanside Gray Engineered Hardwood$3.19 / sq.ft.

They harvest, and separate the good from the bad.Then come the investors/rehabbers, the "processing plant" where the "wheat" is turned into "bread" (ugly houses are rehabbed).Then the processing plant ships the bread to the grocery store (rehabbers seller's agent) who them markets the bread to the consumer.Sure you could farm yourself, process yourself, and market yourself.

But you do not need a ranking website to start harvesting leads.Buid a great converting website, and then manually drive traffic to that site, either with DMM, PPC, post cards, what ever... but sending questionable mailers  and on top of that spend a fortune sending said questionable mailers is just plain stupid!

.: @K S. here is Nike:Return on Assets   9.89%Return on Equity 36.38% To be fair if I could use Chinese slave labor, turn a blind eye to forced sterilization, and organ harvesting via the Uygur population, then turnaround to exploit, fund and exacerbate the racial divide in the US for marketing purposes and my bottomline, I could certainly juice my ROE.  

I do not mind waiting 2 years; it is not the only deal I am working with and this would be harvesting a good deal for the future if possible.