IMPORTANT:--Guest communications, including setting up your automated messages--Price adjustments (key into seasonal pricing and important events in your area)--Listing description and noting amenities--Guest reviews--Learning from experienced hosts with great reviews (you can do this on many social media sites, including the Facebook group, Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth)UNIMPORTANT:--Watching your Ring Doorbell camera--Obsessing about minute details that other hosts are freaking out about--Being a control freak about ANYTHING related to this business. 

Mine is still in the beginning stages, so it would be invaluable to me to learn what information is most significant to some of the more seasoned investors on the forum.Thanks!

To get a feel for what history can teach us, talk to some seasoned investors who lived through the real estate market from 2007 to 2010. 

I started doing it because our market, in peak season (summer and fall), is a traditional Saturday-Saturday weekly rental market.

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The seasonality up here can skew the data pretty hard sometimes. 

It is a seasonal area and we are too far away from the summer to understand vacancy rates by looking at similar properties.  

If you are able to prove it as a primary residence, it may be worth getting conventional financing but there will likely be a 6 month seasoning period. 

You’re still talking about 3% purchase price which in a residential sale I seriously spent will send a buyer down the road to the house they don’t like as much… seasoned buyers are going to pay the same price they would have.

Interact with their material, ask for guidance, and establish connections with other investors in the markets you want to pursue.Attend Webinars on Real Estate Investing: Seek for webinars or online gatherings led by seasoned real estate agents in Upstate New York and Ohio.