Just add the fee up front and get the car info after booking.

Then you can read a more in-depth book like The Book On Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner or The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing by Spencer Strauss.2.

If anyone has recommendations for free resources—whether it’s books, websites, videos, or anything else that could help me sharpen my skills—I’d really appreciate it.

My favorite books when I started off P/T were Gary Keller's The One Thing AND Millionaire Real Estate Agent.

It is very dependent on your place, location, and target guest, but I have built my properties' social following to almost 50,000 followers, with 65% direct bookings from that.

So, essentially it takes out a lot of the guessing and constantly looking at your competition to get you more bookings.

If this is an STR, DSCR lenders will require that you have booked the property on an STR site for 12 months or have 12 months of prior experience with a different property.

In fact, I've made up a few of my own that aren't in the book.

Definitely should check out J Scott's book on estimating rehab costs: https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/the-book-on-estimat...I wrote a long article a while back on due diligence that would also be worth reading (well, at least I think it is): https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/due-diligence-ultimate-gu...

I am checking out a couple of books to read and I have the time available to study and learn.