. $196k value is just an algorithm that wouldn’t take property condition into account.

Your target, from what you wrote, would be cheaper renters looking for a value stay that is clean, but unspectacular.If you market is saturated, you will keep going lower and lower in the algorithm which will indirectly restrict booking.

Because it's not an OTA but rather just a lead gen funnel, there is no algorithm impacted by you not approving a guest or cancelling one and no penalties.

How you do it, with some statistical certainty, is to reverse engineer the algorithm.

Those algorithms compare homes based on general location, size, # of beds/baths, age, etc.

A lot of STR owners, the ones who never should have got in, are going to the bottom of the algorithm so it doesn't sound that attractive.

No, I don't work for Allstate haha but wanted to share that their pricing algorithms seem to be giving the lowest quotes on 2-4s in chicagoland area right now. 

For example, several of the homes you are sharing here are manufactured homes, but I believe the Zestimate algorithm generally conflates those with brick and mortar single family homes. 

Even tho we went out of our way to meet a RentFax algorithm based totally on his criteria.

AIrbnb's algorithm gives new listings an initial boost when you first list, so new bookings start coming in.