In the operation, you should use a third party dynamic pricing platform that will adjust your night rate automatically based on the data they have in the area. 4.

This is all public data, except for the rentometer estimated rents (which you should expect to mark up for being fully-furnished). 

Its growth rate is intimidating, and my personal interpretation of the data is that the market is actually still undervalued. 

You do all of your own due diligence on what to offer based on the data.

If you get a lot of properties it would be fun to have the first tab pulling data for metrics on portfolio performance, monthly cash flow, expenses, etc.

Louisiana is also a very landlord friendly state and that doesn't hurt either.I have been looking at the rental data in New Orleans lately and it seems like there may be a surplus of rentals available, most likely due to the STR rules causing people to switch to regular long-term rentals.

Based on the data I was seeing in Airbnb, I can tell that the property was well located because my views and favorites in the Airbnb were significantly higher than the other properties in the areas, especially after the number of reviews increased.

You need to learn to be an expert in some source of stress at finding, filtering for (a data source tool like propstream.com) or buying from a data vender who is good. 

Is anyone using Stessa and importing Airbnb transactions into Stessa? Works really well (I used the CSV option) - but the Stessa import tool does not bring in the GUEST SERVICE FEE from the Airbnb transaction. Any ide...

@Jeremy HartwigYou are missing a lot of important data, such as median income of the area, rent comps in the area, what current values are.You are buying on actuals, but in many markets that have low supply and have a lot of demand, it makes it difficult buy based on actuals.