Under the worst circumstances, if you can still cashflow as an LTR, then you'll have some cushion in case "seasonality" reveals itself to be a saturated market.Third: Analyze the main factors for STR for your property = projected ADR (Average Daily Rate), occupancy (days booked divided by days available), and average length of stay.

Here's why...Although BHAM is not the sexiest market out there, it is a nascent market-not saturated with big hedge fund dollars gobbling up all of the properties and driving up acquisition costs for the local mom and pop turn-key operators.  

I presume it's because the markets are becoming saturated at the same time as the tourists numbers peeled back a little.  

With that said, happy to lend an opinion to anyone considering the greater Coachella Valley market, while my particular niche is saturated, there are a number of other angles that do well, although it seems the returns of my scope are tapped out at this point.

Engelo, Walter is too polite to say that Price Hill is saturated with 3rd generation hillbilly's and 1st generation Hispanic immigrants. 

For STR's, may investors and I all got out of that market due to the extreme saturation throughout Florida.

I am always surprised that the supposedly good wholesalers are dead set on defending the idea of wholesaling, when I would think they should spend more time talking about the bad wholesalers and guru scam artists that saturate the business.

It sounds like this is a tactic for a certain size of multifamilies in markets that haven't been completely saturated. 

I do use the site to view how many rentals there are in a particular area in order to avoid a saturated areas.

Be creative with your mail pieces and try to do something other than the same old tired "we buy houses" phrase.I know in my area, we have reached a point of absolute saturation with the number of realtors and investors out there.