Once brokers and agents have been through economic and sales cycles they understand more that predictable cash flow from investments and not living deal to deal can make sense long term.  

If you prefer the stability and predictability of a long-term rental, or if you don't want to deal with the hassle of managing a short-term rental, a long-term rental may be the better option for you.

Marketplace has been great for traffic and volume (and honestly the traffic supports our website SEO, too), but the quality of the those exploring is predictably lower than the Zillow syndicated sites and other.

I know you wont be able to predict where you will be getting orders to next but if you do head into a more expensive appreciation based market I think that would be a better area to us your VA loan in.

These opportunities usually focus on one asset class, but it is normal to see various markets included in one investmentReturns are more consistent and can mirror the industry norms as the investment outliers average out to create more steady and predictable returnsInvestment offering timelines are usually longer on the front end and offer multiple entry points for the investor since the investment firm will likely accept investors throughout their acquisition period of all the assets in the investmentRequires less money to invest in multiple properties as compared to investing the minimum investment in multiple propertiesConsSince the specific assets have not usually been identified, you are not able to vet the specific deals against your criteria.

Especially when (if) you can predict the future.

The key difference is that the host will live in the unit when not subleasing it on a short-term basis. (2) This will increase the supply of STR apartments which will drive down average daily rents as more sellers compete for the same number of buyers. (3) I predict that the quality of these units will be much lower.

Interesting article here - Pinterest predicts what the top trends of 2023 will be.

I PREDICT that when mortgage rates increase a percent or two that values will skyrocket in the short term because people will panic about getting into the market at low rates. 

Kind of weird to here the trepidation and predictions that 2016 was the height of the real estate and stock markets, maybe bubbly.