Even with an increase risk in coastal areas, the 3-5x multiplier in performance with maybe a 10-15% risk increase Ian completely justified.  

(The numbers start to get "real" when you start multiplying by 37!!!).  

Then I will have another workflow that counts the number of "dents" for each record and multiplies it by my cost per piece.

*quickly multiplies purchase price of my STR by 0.15... okay cool, I'm good*Agree with what others said.

How would you keep multiplying your $$$??

, find out the price per sq ft it sold for, and multiply that to your properties sq ft.

Investing is risky, starting out even more so, investing from a distance without considerable first hand experience multiply that risk by 10, 20, 100.

They could be betting that they will get MORE from those monthly fees (multiplied by the number of their newbie Agents who may hardly ever close a deal anyway), than they might by getting many fewer newbies to sign up if they only offer split commissions! 

In some markets that are landlord heavy, we'll take the Zillow or Rentometer average rent and multiply that by 54-57 then subtract our wholesale fee to generate an offer.

That's awesome my friend. 2X equity multiplier - wooo hooo!