All the low hanging fruit has shriveled up.

If a small investor has all of their eggs in one basket with one paid for property a large claim may be more risk than they are able to take. 

Fruit flies......Come on Man.  

VRBO tried to find a win/win approach.VRBO charges you an annual fee, or you have to pay a % of every booking to them, Airbnb charges the guest ( i think this depends on your settings/location)I try to keep a 50/50 balance between VRBO and Airbnb, but It's more like 70% Airbnb and 30% VRBO, because of short stays and international travel. in 2019 most of my VRBO bookings were from families from the UK and they used VRBO, in 2021 most of my guests are domestic and use Airbnb.There is really no benefit for you to put all of your eggs into one basket.

BUT -- I'm apprehensive because it's putting so many eggs in *one* basket.  

I have found that talking to people about what I am trying to do with real estate investing has been fun and fruitful.

They recently scored a massive economy pack of frozen fruit in the freezer. 

Going to small claims court winning is easy but beyond that collecting from those that are uncollectable or not wanting to be collected from is extremely time consuming, can be costly and rarely fruitful.  

Too many eggs in one basket for sure.

You lay the ground work and continue working the relationship for a long time, until it finally becomes fruitful.