Hi Joe,From your words I understand that you swipe the country east to west finding a deal ?

Despite that the banks and the government claim a crash can't happen again, not much has changed, except that the large banks crushed competitors and guaranteed their bailouts by depositors through Dodd-Frank. 

People would quite their jobs, work for a couple of competitors, and end up back at their original company 18 months later at twice the salary they had when they left (the industry buzzword back then was "cross fertilization").

You need to be better than your competitor.

Interesting since he presumably works for SoftServe (linkedin.com) the Ukranian company who handled the web development of Airbnb's competitor HomeAway.

The companies that will stay down after a recession are the ones that went in weaker, and had to lay off their core talent, give up critical assets, end up buried in debt, or didn't have the funds to develop any new products while their competitors did (ie, you should have bought those competitors instead).

If you need to swipe a credit card to buy it, then you don't need it, whatever 'it' is."

Check out the prices and amenities of your competitors nearby on Airbnb and VRBO, you'll try to offer a bit better than the market.

I don't know if I should name them here since BP has a service and this is a competitor.

Here's my price breakdown:$159 is what I charge, however on Air BNB my price is $187 which is comparable to my competitors.