I myself will be looking into them, evolve is stealing a lot of money from you in fees.

There are much evidence showing Airbnb's logic has been evolving.

Covid hit family rentals hard; many landlords are still waiting for their day in eviction court, or have properties that are completely wrecked after nonperforming tenants vacated.

I have been doing fix-n-flips throughout COVID, but I have always been in the market area to manage them.   

Pre-covid it was around 1M visitors for a 3 day weekend festival.

Did Covid teach you anything about predictability? 

We only need 12 months of housing history and proof of rent payments.The DSCR market has evolved a great deal over the past couple of years, which has opened up access to more investors. 

The other one is not in California, quit W2 at age 37 scaled from 2014 to 2021 with 5 duplexes, quit W2 during COVID, lives a frugal lifestyle and benefitted from the huge increase in property values and low interest rates. 

We were in a hurry to sell the property as we were in the middle of COVID.

He graduated HS the Covid year which added to the difficulties.