The hotel lobbying against STR’s in NYC has weakened as a result of 2020, and NYC may look to relax regs to boost tourism...therefore boost their tax revenues.

Primarily healthcare companies, which based upon current events, I think will see both a funding boost in major areas, along with legislation that is friendly to attract and maintain those businesses.One thing I am concerned with -- keeping in mind this is not a political view, just an observation, is our taxes and what-is-being-taxed continues a steep upward climb.

In that time I collected rentals, and let the appreciation boost my net worth.Gained so much it makes the cash flow look irrelevant in comparison. 

Syncing gets you credit for all off channel bookings and boosts your listing rating2.

In that way on those smaller deals I am getting 3 points of return ( commission twice, equity, cash flow) for my time which boost the returns up to an acceptable level for me.

Sometimes it's nice to know that a bank or hard money lender will fund a project because it boosts confidence in your assessment of the deal.  

One of the interesting skills I picked up was scraping data off the internet, cleaning it up, and normalizing it to boost various predictive algorithms.

That for sure has had an affect on appreciation growth in certain markets, while boosted suburban markets faster than normal.  

I've worked very hard to boost the cash flow on my existing CA rental properties with careful analysis for annual rent increases and hard line expense minimization, and it has helped a lot.

Adding a washer/dryer is a pretty inexpensive boost.