@Quin Ortiz how many competitor programs have you tested?

I would mainly be interested in seeing the listing, evaluating the photos, the listing description, historical occupancy rate, and doing my own research on market comps to see how competitors are performing.

Good stuff here already but yeah, rule of thumb "if it seems too good to be true / terms and rates much better than competitors" its likely a scam. 

I only use rabbu as the 3rd data source to validate my analysis, I find that it runs really high but its helpful and also easy to see what your competitors might be doing.

SmartZip is a competitor of theirs.

I've been sending to this list for 8 years & have had a ton of feedback (& have seen some of my competitors adv).

You can check all this stuff on AirDna and analyze how the competitors are doing nearby. 

This can be done for a specific property by researching competitors and using some software to identify rental rates of nearby properties.

The real competitor of ATM is bank branch, in terms of withdrawing cash.

So if you are going to be a host that outperforms your competitors and want to get fabulous reviews, there isn’t complete down time if you are self managing at the highest level.