While ROI is important and drives a lot of decisions about stuffing guests into small spaces, remember that vacation rentals/str are made and killed by guest reviews. 

But fact is, wage inflation is here, it's no longer a forecast, it's happening, and once the genie is out of the bottle there no stuffing it back in. 

Once you these 3 things right then comes all the hard work of doing the direct mail (writing, stuffing, stamping, etc).

What constitutes smart strategy depends a lot on what the return is on the alternative investment you could make with the cash you're stuffing into equity on the rental.

I'm struggling about the type of mail, because the handwriting and stuffing envelopes takes so damn long, but it seemed effective.  

@Dillon AlderIt might look like a forest, but a lot of those are food trees.Free apples, pears, cherries,  pine nuts, maple syrup (maybe), walnuts, and chestnut (stuffing).I'm not sure I'd remove them.

If they have kids, maybe a buffalo stuffed animal etc...

Ohh I will set you up with an awesome backlink profile".That and "keyword stuffing". is the extent of 99.999999% of the SEO guru's out there.If you only had an IDEA what strategies we develop it would blow your mind!

Though this has seriously boosted my net worth, it has stuffed my cash flow into the trash.I have a significant amount of equity in this and other properties, but thanks to this property shooting my DTI so high, everywhere I go I get shot down for HELOC's and personal home improvement loans.

I think I'll stick with my separate google docs for sorting purposes, and keep a calendar handy planning out future mailings, same idea though.And give someone $100 for a day watching TV and stuffing envelopes.