Ironically it's much more difficult to buy a quality asset than a cheap duplex, as you are competing with other experienced investors and it may take more time.

Again, a very obvious thing for anyone who understands finance/real estate.If anyone states that someone should buy cheap real estate, they do not understand how fixed costs impact total return due to limitations in top-line revenue.

Top TrackStreamline Hostaway (~$40-45)OwnerRez (cheap but doesn’t have Wheelhouse)Middle Hostfully (cheap)AirGMSBottom Hospitable (cheap) *although we rank this low, it is still a very good app.

BACK IN 2016 CHINA WAS BEING ACCUSED OF USING CHEAP STEEL TO BUILD METAL BUILDINGS.

Many of the lakes have local STR management although not cheap.  

One thing I would definitely invest in is a cheap code lock, so you can change it and not have to meet the guests there.

But it's neither cheap nor easy to do.

I send it with USPS proof of delivery but no required signature verification.

Being too cheap also may back fire if you end up making 10,000 calls by pulling a list from Propstreams and never closing a single deal in the end. 

If you do not take the gold for delivery and have some sort of representative interests in the gold- look up what happened to Iceland during the banking failures.