With the use of VRBO, Booking.com and direct bookings can all raise your chances of staying booked and being successful.  

Have recently started a renovation company with a friend, both of us successful business owners and talented in the trades.

Don't buy those types of homes, they will take a long time and not sell for what you were thinking it would sell for! 

I’m torn between going the wholesaling route or sticking with long-term rentals. 

What trends proved to be the most successful for you last year?

You also do not want to be too cheap and leave money on the table.If you do all of that you will be well on your way to being successful.  

They should have all the resources you will need to be successful in any area you're looking at.

This is key to being successful.

I'm based in WI and there are several people from NY investing here, some successful and some not---the common thread I see from the ones that are not is that they relied on someone else for information instead of investigating, VERIFYING and doing their own due diligence. 

After reflecting on a strategy someone used to buy 15 short-term rentals off-market in just 12 months, I thought of an idea.