My biggest advice when designing a vacation rental is to truly know the daily activities, habits, and needs of your target guests.

Something has to get better in that market as the regulations are too confining and essentially up to interpretation by the city explore you engage with.

This is what I am encountering, in the current Mortgage Industry.If you think you will go FHA, Conventional, FHA 203k, etc. and then Quit Claim the property, to a LLC, or a Land Trust you run the risk of the lender discovering a Title Transfer occurred and activating the "Acceleration Clause" or "Due on Sale Clause" that requires the loan to be paid in full, within 'x' number of days.

Quote from @V.G Jason: I'm sure they've slowed down, but are still actively looking.

Larger owners tend to analyze market rents monthly or even weekly and manage rents (or incentives) the best way they can.As long as the owner is engaged, the chance of adjusting rents is higher.

I keep coming across posters asking for advice on how to “scale” their investment or business activities.  

As someone actively investing in STRs and looking to scale, this raises some concerns for me about the long-term viability of this strategy.I understand the tension between hotels and STRs, especially in popular tourist destinations, but I’m curious:How real is this threat?

Understand you have great equity position but it is expensive, but more importantly  takes a lot of time and very distracting from other money making activities to foreclose.

Those agents have their ego at the expense of the relationship, and there are such agents actively participating in this thread.

Happy Holidays, and thank you for sharing such a detailed and engaging market update!