But again, if I already have plenty of guests paying it now with no shortages of bookings then I don't need to worry about dropping platform fees to guests to entice more guests.  

And how to present to the owner so it can be more enticing. 

Not uncommon for a PMC to entice an owner into signing with them with apparent low or no fees – only to charge owners for fees not mentioned in the contract and try to pass them off as “normal industry fees.”

With the VA, I'm able to pull out 100% of my equity which makes this deal enticing.

The only reason arbitrage is enticing is because of the potential cash flow to get some quick-ish capital. 

My question is if I find a property that seems enticing via pictures, agent opinion, etc for a BRRRR, when should I have a contractor see it to give their opinion on the condition and estimate? 

I buy houses regularly at the auction and banks are doing "drop bids" on properties that require a lot of work to entice investors to bid at the sale.

If it is just every now and then, a higher hourly rate is more enticing for the co host. 

Also, you can have a 100% legit estimate for something like the taping/painting work, or electrical work, etc. but the problem is sometimes you may still not find anyone interested in doing it for those prices, either because their work load is too high, the markup you assumed wasn’t very enticing, there’s no local contractor for it (ie small scale stucco , masonry), etc. 

I received multiple qualifying applications this morning and it's enticing to increase that rent but its a case of the devil I know is better than I don't.