I require Guests have ID Verified; I don't require a profile photo (those shown after booking, if there is one).I use Instant Book; I require "Good track record" and I require the Guest to respond to my Pre-booking message before they can book.

Enough exposure to the LL industry to know whether you'd choose to continue to self-manage or to outsource the job as your portfolio scales... with the added benefit that you live on property and thus can instantly get over to your rental unit to assess and/or handle any issues.

I don't have any debt I can't clear instantly. 

you go to Google.Anyone and everyone goes to google to find instant answers.

If I am completely wrong and turnkey is truly a trap, I am definitely open to reconsider since I am still early in my Turnkey investment journey and would want to know sooner rather than later whether to shift my strategy.Thanks :-)You get a lot of folks on BP looking for instant gratification.

BOOM - instant million with no effort. 

@Aaron LietzThey’re selling programs because it is instant, easy income.

After all, the bank may demand to instantly cover the entire loan - and if you do not do this, will this property be taken away from you through bankruptcy?

I'm no lawyer, but the CA Statue of Frauds prohibits contracts by text message in Section 1624 (d)(d) An electronic message of an ephemeral nature that is not designed to be retained or to create a permanent record, including, but not limited to, a text message or instant message format communication, is insufficient under this title to constitute a contract to convey real property, in the absence of a written confirmation that conforms to the requirements of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (b).

Your trying to time the market, hmmm.............Good luck It's no joke, and it's not a lot of analyzing, perhaps you haven't seen my post 'I made LA/Ventura & SF/Bay Area market analysis & sales comps tools you can use' (seems my original post photos are missing, but see the post replies for a thorough run-through)You, me, everyone can instantly generate these charts with my software tool RUNCOMPS, among other things:All I did was save a few of the charts generated by the Sales Data radio button at the bottom, and then put them in Google Slides to come up with all this in <15 min.Were you thinking I sat there, manually scraped this data, cleaned & calculated on the data, then manually made charts for every zip code, and all that?