The Airdna estimate for this property was 80K/year, and it is accurate as we own one nearby. 

Compare these rates with active rental listings in the neighborhood to ensure they are accurate.

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

The majority of the list was wrong.It could be accurate with other types of lists, but I didn't bother to check.

Accurate office hours. - if the office is randomly closed when you stop by during business hours its not a good sign. 

Plenty of poor syndicators out there but let's keep things accurate and fair.  

If you cannot make and accurate assessment of what will fit on the property than you cannot make a proper evaluation of value.

It was not producing a return that justified the effort and this was a purchase made prior to the recent rate hikes and the crazy appreciation from 2012 to 2022 (so its return was better than if the property was purchased today).I do believe a local investor should do better than an OOS investor, but it starts with accurate/realistic under writing.  

If I wanted to do high stakes gambling I would go to Vegas and get free drinks not pay so gurus to blow smoke.

When they calculate the financing for spec homes, a lot of times they can't accurately forecast this portion.