Forget about the mother, you should only be talking to whomever is on the signed lease.

I usually use 3-5 data sources to come up with my own numbers.As someone who's been doing Airbnb for close to a decade, I would also caution that occcupancy keeps dropping as everyone and their mother tries to get into the Airbnb game.

We have the Alexa thing - my mother bought it for me some years ago - but I don't use it at all other than to ask it "Was Fuzzy Wuzzy a Bear?"

@Jason Chin  1)  focus on getting the  HELOC in place on the  home she lives in  as  most heloc lenders  are  able to  do these on primary  homes and not rentals  2)  do not move  into a LLC as most lenders  will not lend to a LLC   3) some heloc lenders  will not  be able to  do the loan if the heloc  is to be in  fisrst position  4) your mother may  qualify OK  based on her  tax returns  5)  consider  contacting the bank she  or you bank with for a HELOC  6) consider  contacting the small to mid size  credit unions / banks  close to the  subject property for heloc options 

I've found great success in rent by room and finding unique properties with mother-in-law apartments, and also, I've seen clients utilize Airbnb as well, so it really depends on your goals? 

As one property, it would be great for an extended family situation (mother-in-law suite thing) and more.

I have a rule of not renting to friends or family and I have broken it consciously three times, once to my mother and twice to friends.

So I actually got better results with non Driving For Dollars lists because I didn’t spend that whole 60 hours driving around writing down addresses.Also, I noticed that motivations for Driving for Dollars leads were the motivations for other lists (house going into pre foreclosure… mother died, it went through probate and is now vacant… etc).

Refinished bathroom, refinished basement, turned garage into bonus room/ mother-in-law suite, upgrades backyard with fireplace and pool.

Had one client go from $700k to over a million by adding their mother who was going to move in anyways.