Purchase price: $8,450,000 Cash invested: $2,600,000 Built in 1986 and situated on a 1.51-acre site, the boutique apartment community offers a unit mix of 30 two-bedroom/two-bath apartments.

If you ever have any questions feel free to reach out I enjoy helping or offering tips/loopholes to other BP members.

Do you handle this through the platform (AirBNB or VRBO) or outside?

However, you should never just trust information provided by either any platform or the applicant directly.

They will just wait for you to cancel the contract and offer on the listing themselves. 

Taxing authorities and the booking platforms are now getting half or more of the pie. 

In my limited experience with a similar service, they will send you leads and even make offers but you still need to do your due diligence and make sure it's a profitable deal for you.

also, Airbnb has some sort of protection but what are you doing with reservations coming from other platforms such as  booking.com VRBO etc?

Quote from @Daniel Lang: Hey all, I am just getting started and in my first deal I offered more than the property appraised for. 

Hey Diana - I usually message the guest directly through the booking platform and offer to ship the item if they cover the cost.