Payouts are sent automatically to me and the owner according to our split.

Your true return has to be risk adjusted.  

This adjustment stabilizes income for many, and a healthier vacation rental market is anticipated by next year.

Adjusting the purchase price, budget, and offers can help you reach the break-even point.Many calculators overestimate cost assumptions or rental comps, which can be both beneficial and a hindrance.

The "online leads" trend becomes a vast pool of scams, each one discovering a new and "better" way to find motivated sellers via SEO/Paid adds/Social Media etc, and automatically aims to make a profit from selling those so-called leads.

adjust your price, be aggressive on it and it will rent.

I use saved responses in Zillow messenger - I suppose I could try to integrate AI to automatically select a response based on certain criteria…But what else is taking you that long?

The key is to be ready, wait for the right property, and adjust your offer based on the strategy you want to deploy.The time of year is less important than the property itself.

Very satisfied with the results, operations and and the ability for both manual and automatic shut off before a leak can cause damage.. 

Just go through them, select the renovated/closely matching ones, and enter them into a model.Here's my fix & flip model, you can see the comps entered and some quick stats below them: Then I use that comp data to adjust the Sale Price in the model to what I estimate it will be (double check the resale $/sf is in-line with the comps), then adjust the purchase price until I hit my desired return level.