The movie star might have an "I'll do whatever I want" entitlement streak.

In my experience this site's all star professionals favor self starters who can and will get after it, while folks who need to be spoon fed get eaten alive by the gurus and salesmen who spot a mark.Hope that helps!

The price was set a bit lower to fill the home up and get a handful of 5-star reviews which we did.As I look at my calendar now, I see most of July is booked up but come August 1st, its pretty empty. 

I'm going to argue (or "muse") here, that the stars have aligned, giving Jerome Powell and the Fed a clear mandate and little in the way of distraction to doing whatever it takes to beat inflation. 

This means these companies attest to the host providing 5-star accommodations.

The stars aligned...

Our All-Star line up of Special Guest Speakers include:- Avery Carl - CEO & Founder of The Short Term Shop- Kelvin Mah: Founder & CEO of Rankbreeze- Diya Liu - STR & Hotel Investor- Ryan Bakke - CPA, Real Estate Tax & Cost Segregation Expertand more to come!

The neighbor that's done it twice in 20 years or the professional company with a crew of six that can knock it out in two days, has 27 reviews and a 4.8-star rating, and their roof comes with a transferrable warranty?

Not the star of the neighborhood, but clean, attractive and well priced.At first it was hard because they had to put extra fix up money into the place.But eventually that was pretty much over with, but they really didn't have a lot of "Cash Flow" leftover after bills to spend as profits.This is because their lender ate up a lot of the cash flow (with their 3.5% down loan).So James decided he wanted to make a few extra bucks and took a pottery class at the local community college.So he could learn to make pottery, and sit by the roadside on a blanket selling clay pots -- after coming home from his primary job as a Pet Detective.Freida says no to the class, afraid James will run off with some fellow young pot maker in a tight skirt.But James presses on and signs up for the class anyway--determined to make some extra money.Well a couple of days into the class, poor James is killed in a Kiln explosion--completely accidental.Freida was emotionally devastated, but luckily had a large insurance policy on James, which she used to pay off the 4-plex and also buy herself a nice small SFH near a Starbucks.So now Frieda owns the 4-plex all by herself, no bank, no James, and the rents all come to her 100%, and now she is renting out 4 apartments vs 3 as before.In one of the apartments lives a renter family, Bob, his girlfriend Janet and their two little kids Bert and Ernie. 

@Kevin P McCarthy - I'm guessing you are not even close to a 5-star STR host.