I also love art, music, and finding host families for foreign exchange students. 

I was recently watching a webinar that @Brandon Turner was hosting where he was going over the benefits of using the BP Calculators to quickly analyze deals.

Good luck, are you hosting Stubbs or Pecan Lodge?

In addition there are a host of other tax benefits and deductions which you would be entitled to claim depending on your income.

My wife works as a co-host for another BP member who has 10 units in Dunedin and they use VRBO as well. 

They want to push the cost over to the hosts

Mike i get this for those that have a single strategy IE  rentals.. by either buying or value adding to them.now i was over in Hawaii last week and my host has been buying   tax free state of Hawaii bonds which according to him have been yielding 4 to 5%so seems that could be an option have your broker search muni bonds other than sitting there doing nothing.for me personally I like to have a few arrows in the quiver that way the thought is  if one thing is not working something else could be.I just dont see a crash coming anytime soon.. at least in my markets. 

Most of the time agents, brokers or lenders hosting meetups and prohibiting others in the same profession from coming.If you're hosting a Meetup in Minneapolis or Saint Paul isn't the purpose to freely share information?

But I think it's a great touch if you are generally hosting longer stays.

I was listening to a podcast where the host is talking to a guy who touts that you can make so much money by finding unclaimed money from tax sale overages.