When you start gauge progress and evaluate your budget to see if you need to adapt that.

You just have to adjust and adapt. 

These cash flow nicely as long as you adapt to the sub-market/pocket and scale it.

Being and investor, entrepreneur, business owner, means you need to adapt - you're just starting out so you will work your way into a process and never ending continuum of improvement Hook up with wholesalers, drive around and look for distressed homes, make offers, talk to people.

I'd agree Sam, sometimes the area will have to be slightly adaptable and not necessarily somewhere you'd pick in your first choice.

If the market and my experience steer me toward one or the other, then I'll adapt and keep moving forward.

I'm curious to hear from any investors that own short term rentals in the Joshua tree area how things have changed and what they are doing to adapt to the new rules.Anything you can share on your experience with j tree airbnb's would be great!

The problem is everyone in the US has dogs we must adapt to this.I have a terrier mix that moved in made them give me $300 more in deposit, plus rental insurance.

The main issue with models like those are that they are only good for 12-18 months before they have to get re-done with new data due to the fact that we live in a complex adaptive society and all the participants can make different decisions based on what changes in their environment. 

Adapt and overcome, keep adapting and keep overcoming.