Tangentially, there are a fair amount of former STRs now being sold around town in part because of the regs and also saturation.  

You can just look for houses you like and run the numbers rather than focusing on small areas.As far as AirBnB, our market is fairly saturated so you really have to operate at a high level to stand out and/or have a really excellent location. 

So maybe that's stacking savings, maybe paying down debt, improving FICO, or maybe it's raising capital, whatever, the details don't matter because there is 101 flavors out there, all that matters is what is your 1-Thing NOW, do that, THAT alone, with fanatical focus like a fat-boy on cake!

The STR market is very saturated.

Pigs get fat and happy, hogs get slaughtered. 

The reason why that approach is effective is that those communication channels will be less saturated with competition, and also attract more actively interested people.

I personally think this advice is more for the high saturation areas vs those of us in outside the mainstream areas. 

An institutional investor with a history of working with syndications in these kinds of deals is going to have a much better handle on fair and realistic fees the syndicator should be collecting for those services versus a bunch of lps that may be working on the first syndication deal and frankly glosses right over those issues when they see 15% annual returns and a nice fat cash bonus on the planned exit.

A pool is a must, pools with spas book better.Many will tell you Orlando is saturated, which it is.

Then used Airdna numbers solely now with saturation and inflation.