This strategy has gained popularity because of its potential for building wealth through real estate.

So even popular rent estimate tools seem a little inflated unless you're outpeforming the competition with what youre offering.

No, bececause every site is so different. 

Columbus has been a very popular market for Californian investors to buy property in because of all of the tech growth. 

We find pricing today is way lower than what the site say.

Only advice I can suggest is to continue to market future and guests to other channels such as a direct booking site, or the other housing platforms.In the beginnning, Airbnb and VRBO were just about the only place we got bookings, but now we get some from direct, booking.com, and a couple of other sites.Hope that helps.Mike

Many sites do syndicate MLS data, but it's much more robust for active listings and a large fail for closed statistics.

Welcome to the site!

I'm exploring different options for building on vacant land here in CA and am very intrigued by pre-fab home designs (Walls etc.. are assembled in a factory and shipped to site).

GoodbudgetWhat makes it unique: The Goodbudget app uses the popular envelope budgeting system, which allocates portions of your monthly income to virtual envelopes, or expense categories, like groceries, gas, debt payoff, etc.