This is especially true of small mom & pop businesses in high end areas.  

.: I'd like to know if hosts are using the dynamic pricing tool on Airbnb and VRBO.  

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

The quality of answers to your are directly correlated to the quality of your questions asked.  

I would highly recommend a mentor or even paying a coach to get started.

It seems to me that they all whether paid of free, will all have the same exact amount of houses because all the transactions are all public and so they seem to compete with each other based on the quality of the data of the houses, how up to date it is, and the user experience in configuring the how the layout is.

BiggerPockets also has a calculator to analyze deals, and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.

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Expenses seem abnormally high on this as it's not a nightly property.

You mentioned price, are you too high?