And that is true, but that is also sort of like saying "to mitigate the risk of investing in Apple, and relying on their decisions, I will start my own tech company" (okay, that is a bit extreme, but you get the idea).  

My cleaning teams are extremely well-paid compared to other properties in the area.

When you know your market extremely well.

More percentage-based fees are a bit disappointing since on larger homes or longer bookings of, say, $10k a 7% processing fee would equate to $700 in channel fees for bookings hosts effectively created on their own. 

BRRRR is extremely difficult but you have lots of control. 

They do have a very awesome app called Deal Driven which is an extremely awesome marketing - organizing - information and skip tracing tool.

It’s extremely rare for a lawsuit to go over 1 million.

I've already found this community and the podcasts to be extremely valuable. 

Like many (most) small business owners especially in this high interest rate environment, we have to use make extensive use of our personal credit rather than using extremely expensive business credit.

(doubt this is accurate)Regardless0.02% of 500,000,000 = 100,000 people are successfulSo you see ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND success stories, people holding up checks, bragging about how many Lambos they buy... but what you will never see are the rest of the 499,900,000 people quietly crying in the fetal position on the floor that lost a fortune trying those tactics.You don't hear from them, you don't see them and you only see extremely incomplete data.Again,I would stop telling others it is a numbers game.