Quote from @Jacob Dalton: I purchased a single family home good quality location in Chicago’s Northwest Suburbs in Cook County as a personal residence.

When choosing a location for your first rental, it’s great that you’re considering factors like crime rate, population growth, employment rate, and price-to-rent ratio—those are all key metrics.

This method is simple but not precise.

There's no precise figure because no one will understand your STR or market as well as you do- or, as well as you will (with time).

I would want to automate the marketing and channels - which would be where precisely?

Sounds like you have the motivation & ambitious but precise goals.

@Emily Gowen These types of questions are precisely the focus of my firm.

@Aleksandra DrovalI'm not sure what statistics you're looking at but everything I've read and heard shows exactly te opposite, that hotels are losing to Airbnb precisely because of the experience.

This way the partner is getting paid more precisely for what they contribute.

Cashiers is unincorporated Jackson County - where Highlands is its own municipality and able to act in more precise way that exact community.