Short term rental property shopping can be a lot like fishing.

Most young people are unable to buy their first homes in the area, and STR's have moved from the quaint fishing cottages around the harbourside to more residential areas, and have caused their fair share of problems.

Plenty of other fish in the sea. 

LOLWell...if I was a local  turnkey soup-to-nuts provider here in Pgh I would definitely hold on to the sweetest deals I found for my own portfolio and only market my secondary options.

In my area good tenants are like fishing for marlin in a backyard puddle so I was willing to wait to get someone highly qualified as opposed to the armies of Troop Drama that normally flood my ads.

I will never forget fishing on my boat in the FL Keys out on the reef and being on my cell phone negotiating an office tenant lease.

I am a very small fish in a huge pond, but the impact of my first BPCON has provided me with an even stronger sense of community built into my personal portfolio.

It covered every strategy known to investors from nuts to soup at least the theory. 

The answer of course in no.This drives me NUTS for a variety of reasons. 1.

Situations like this are why some landlords have crazy long leases, filled with addendums like "no fish tanks over 100 gallons" and "no indoor archery practice".