Your focus should be on optimizing rent growth, vacancy, and major expenses.

There you are in your Panama Jack hat, smoking your puffy with your wine, the light of youth and optimism alive in your eyes.

I am seeing quite a few properties nationwide with 70-80% occupancy with rent optimization and value adding potential.

I figure when the market shifts and financing is not as affordable for me I can focus on optimization vs acquisitions.

We have an aggressive lease purchase program and acquisition assets, which allows us to hold properties until the optimal market conditions are met.

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It doesn't take too much optimism in projections to go from a 3% return to an 8% return.  

@Mike Greenberg - I think it might be interesting to evaluate performance of minimum stays in an area, maybe partitioned by weekday / weekend minimum stays and possibly all bed/bath combos.This leads to the question of, If you had perfect knowledge of optimal minimum stays for your market, would you assign those minimum stay values to your listing?

My guess is that you're way over-thinking things...Mortgage lending (and credit, in general) is tighter than it's been in 50 years, unemployment is high, optimism about the economy is low, and in general, people don't have a whole lot of disposal income.

•Realtors or Agents, three being the optimal number.