Case in point, Airbnb-backed short-term rental operator Zeus Living is reportedly shutting down (an AirBnB backed venture).Bottom LineWith so much happening in the world today, from Ukraine-Putin, to Israel-Hamas, to volatile energy, bond, mortgage, stock prices… there is a lot to be aware of.

You still need to know your actual costs including debt servicing, taxes, capex, etc.Today, the 1% rule really doesn't make sense anywhere largely because interest rates are higher than they've been in decades.

Time has changed, and the U.S. real estate market is not the same as it was 5 to 10 years ago when the 1% rule really became popular.

When looking to determine the rent of the property, does the 1% rule really matter ? 

I didn’t expect the intake guy to actually pull out a ruler and check the scale, but he did.

In fact, I see the 1% rule relied on more than all other reasons combined.

It is extremely difficult to find anything that comes close to the 1% rule really in any price range. 

She came through within the five days.Did have one nightmare scenario that goes along with the "you can't tell who is easy to get along with" rule.  Rented

I'm setting up searches and getting emails, I'm looking up deals in several areas, I'm trying to use the 1% rule (realizing it's <1% nowadays) and looking at the BP Rent Estimator to see if the deal makes sense, but I feel like I am missing something in how to scan through a lot of deals and finding the deals that I should be taking a closer look at, then putting the BP Calculator on that smaller number of potential deals.

We came to the conclusion that we were going to have to put our RE dreams on hold for a while, while we lived in the house and slowly fixed everything over the next year.We did not have a large chunk of change to fix it all up at once so we had to do it on a monthly basis every time we got paid.2 years later we now have a cash flowing rental surpassing the 1% rule (renting out a property for 1% of the purchase price) and building equity while having the mortgage being paid down.