This isn’t about immediate affordability; it’s about creating a sustainable system that gradually reduces costs and increases accessibility through scale and efficiency.Institutionalizing Cultural and Economic ValueSimilar to how pension funds and university endowments operate, this model institutionalizes cultural value.

By accepting pets, it not only has it increased my cash flow per stay, but it has opened up my place for more bookings. 

During turnovers they fix everything, and by everything, I mean they look for anything that they can do to increase the SOW in order to skim as much as they can off the work costs.

The goal is to cash flow so I will rehab the property and increase the rent.

San Diego SFH rad average rent increase of $600/month last year (source Core Logic).  

Combine that with rates that are near high for this century.  3 things could solve this 1) RE prices fall (that would be bad for me) 2) rents increase a lot without RE prices increasing similarly (this would be bad for tenants) 3) rates fall a lot.  

If you can find properties where you can add value (adding units, increasing rents) then you can increase the value of the property, refi and get your money out. 

If it's in your name you can look into the potential for a HELOC or potentially refinance to pull out some of the equity you've created, but you'll need to do the math to see if you're payments will increase based on the new loan terms.

Speed of captial increase.

I've already renovated one of the bathrooms, and I’m planning to paint the interior, update the kitchen cabinets, possibly sand the wood floors, build a fence is a corner lot and increase the rent for the room since my tenant is currently renting the entire 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom house for $800 a month.