For me, if I wasted even half a day trying to find one rather than buying this one it just would not have made sense. 

I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether this approach makes sense or if there are other strategies you’d recommend to optimize profitability.Thanks in advance for your advice! 

Makes sense.

All the major PMS platforms have hundreds of reviews on there and you can get a great sense of what will and won't work for you without having to sit through 5 or 10 sales demos.I discovered both OwnerRez (for our STR) and ThinkReservations (for our hotel) on Capterra.

We refer folks to bank-type lenders regularly throughout the year when that make more sense for our clients. 

Might make sense to pay the taxes and invest in something overseas...$.02

Now if you have say 75+ doors and the economics make sense, you could hire someone on salary to be your dedicated property manager and specify exactly how you want things done, vendors to use etc. 

Of course, not everybody is that good at or has the time to do Google searches or know how easy it is to use ChatGPT so it might still make sense for you to provide such a guide to your (potential) clients.If you don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, you have other easy options:a.

There’s almost always a rate at which it just doesn’t make sense.

There will be stuff like this that activates your "spidey sense".