Customer reviews are always helpful, but this is another tool in your belt for vetting companies.

If the larger home has a lower assessed value, you may have an argument. 

Except their customer service is only through email.

If it is your first, you don't need software just yet-- already there will be such a learning curve from how to manage your place and talking to customers.

His story was, he failed in business 2 times and figured it out on the 3rd go around. 3billion later i got to take a picture with him.Since then I havent went to another training, course or weekend event. only working to unpack the information that I picked up to be useful so definitely no argument there. 

Central to my argument would be that making sweeping changes to the covenants themselves or changing how the covenants have been historically enforced only addresses the current problem indirectly. 

When you're responsible for customizing the layout you can get more creative and find extra space a builder missed out on because they wanted to include some type of flex space or amenity room or it just didn't fit their box.

For argument sake, let's say the DOW is 40k. 

Hostaway's lack of transparency in their pricing makes them pretty hard to recommend to anyone since these types of "custom" pricing schemes are often used as a means of upcharging new customers. 

STR has a lot more risk given the seasonality swings and I cannot understate the time involved in bookings and customer service.Having said that we DO have STRs here in St Augustine, Florida in prime areas in the $400s.