I also am about to remodel my Father's home on Lake Belton near Temple, Tx.The reason I have become interested in 30 day rentals is my house flooded badly during covid and the insurance company was paying $6200 a month for a barely furnished two bed apartment. 

Places in California have barely known anything but expansion.

I’m in the process of getting my license and Ive been doing DMs, barely going outside.

But Hey I lived through it barely and now its a distant memory and I dont want to get a stomach ache thinking about it today  LOL>> carry on.

They tried to compensate for this by providing me with an extra list to call which I appreciated but even that proved to bring barely any more lead flow. 

Many home buyers barely have enough money for a down payment and now they have to come up with additional funds for their buyer's agent? 

My gut is it won't work since it barely cashflow now. 

So it will barely cashflow or break even. 

Then they will also be unprofitable and they will sell them, it is a vicious cycle and there’s simply too many STR‘s in the Poconos right now, the demand isn’t there and basically no one is making any profits off STR right now in the Poconos, they’re basically all losing money month over month on STREven right now in peak Summer season, most of my friends places are barely booked: they have low occupancy rates, and when they are booked, it’s only because they had to lower their prices extremely low like $100 per night.

I only drive on the interstate when I can use my peach pass or you will sit in traffic for hours barely moving.Lots of CA and NY buyers moving away from political views and government changes they do not believe in.