I used Hostaway for the last year and the they recently snuck in a 1.8% fee for our direct booking site.

I am listed on 5 platforms plus have a direct booking site and I rank highly across my 5 listings.  

There are so many veterans who have carved nice paths in real estate investing all over the site and as guests on podcasts that you can learn from as well.

Get listed on all the OTA’s and a direct booking site, use good management software like HostAway, use dynamic pricing software like pricelabs, use WiFi enabled smart locks like Schlage encode, use an email capture system for guests to login to WiFi like stayfi, use those captured emails to do marketing for your direct booking site, and automate scheduling and payments for cleaners and maintenance.

I have gone to numerous RE meetups and discussed numerous ADU appraisals and was heavily involved analyzing one (that gave a value of ~$50k for a ~400’ garage conversion 1/1.  

@Heather Collins but that is what it says on their uploaded article And I doubt that site uploads any false news for us to read and get informed about. 

I looked at numerous live-in flip opportunities.

If you are just looking to network I would go the route of meetups locally (you can check above at the toolbar, hoover over forums then to the right you have events and meetups.If you are looking to wholesale and build a list of buyers that fix and flip for deals you may have then I would pull lists from 3rd party sites like Property Radar or propstream.

With Google, Yelp, Facebook reviews as well as what is on their site and what type of content they are posting on their social media pages....

I'm a beginner as well, but have been reading this site enough to see the recommended (over and over) approach is to leverage your presumably un-tied-down youth to move every 2 years, each time using 3.5% down payments to buy multifamily buildings / house hacks.