How much competition is there?

There are many thousands of searches a month for that key term.Different Cities will have different competition levels for ranking.Diversification:Diversification applies beyond direct booking sites but you should have your listings everywhere.- VRBO- Booking.com- Airbnb- Google Travel (through Direct Booking Site)- Furnish Finder (Direct Booking Site)Speaking of Furnish Finder.

Check out your reviews and the reviews of your competition in the area. 

They offer super competitive commercial products, which I'm seeing landing around a 6.5 - 7.5% interest rate.

Its things like nowing how many shoings should translate into an offer and how to leverage that into competitive things.

@Parker ErnsthausenYou should investwhere you feel you have a competitive advantage.

check out Puget Island  Cathlamet  River frontage  no hotels to compete with very few STR and only 90 miles to PDXprice points lower there is a cute A frame with 100 ft of river frontage and a dock into the columbia on the market now for 615k  3 bd 2 ba upgradedwill sleep 8 easy and will bring 300 plus a night.. with literally zero competition .  301 W sunnysands  check it out. 

The reason for this is that there is outsized competition with your fellow landlord hosts, who are also pursuing nurses, and a shrinking demographic of traveling nurses (cost cutting, covid cuts, etc.)

Yeah, but they are a fraction of the cola drank in the US. 

Tax liens can be very cash intensive and very competitive.