Has anyone had good success on getting vacation rentals with some sort of year round appeal or at least ones that can demand enough rent to cash flow?

On my first round of RFQ, I was seeing apples to oranges, then I sent them another round where I defined line items, it actually was higher, then I gave a third round with line item and max allowable price, then only one was interested. lol.

I'm changing my list up and figured before I send out another round on the new list i should check to see what you all think could be a problem.

I have a colleague who has an STR there and he says he only lost out on 2 months last year (due to Covid) but other than that he rounded out last year at $60k.

I will not bend over backwards trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. 

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I looked into solar for my rentals in Phoenix AZ which has sunshine pretty much all year 'round.

I will be continuously updating this page every 6 months or so, if you didn't make it to this round I will keep you in mind for the next round. 

Ideally you want a good year-round location....

Generally, mixed use expenses for a trade or business are prorated based on the business use.85-90% business use year-round for your only laptop seems high if you only own one property.Some things you're considering "trade or business" related might not be.