Being listed on multiple OTA allows users that use alternate OTAs to see your STR and could provide a higher ADR even if you end up lower ranked of the OTAs.Basically it comes down to having all your eggs in a single basket and is too risky for my liking.i am one of those STR owners that corrects anyone that refers to my STR or STR business as an AirBnB.  

It's about balancing your portfolio and not putting all your eggs in one basket. 

Or, plan on this being a nest egg builder and growing your equity, living in the home for 2 of the last 5 years and then selling with Section 121 exclusion. 

Definitely the chicken and the egg problem.

If I put all of my eggs in one basket (Florida in this case), paid off property and a hurricane blows everything away, FEMA is nowhere to be found and the insurance companies take years to pay what little claims they actually do pay, I suffer through it in a blown out house.

Normally buy eggs but they are too high right now with bird flu.  

This gives much better diversification protection across geographies, asset types, strategies, investment subclasses etc. versus putting all the eggs into one basket.The downside is that it's not for everyone, and a person has to be comfortable with turning over control to someone else.

Some would wander and attempt to sell us stolen goods theyd poached.

Sometimes less is more and just taking the step to buy one more might be better than selling your goose that laid the golden egg in the existing successful house.

The idea of putting eggs in one basket (season) does tend to intimidate me.