Some of them are failing miserably and of course blaming everyone or everything else but themselvesYes, to us, it's obvious who is BS and who is not, but many investors want to be pitched the easy way so they sip that guru juice.

Knowing that you can double your return on your equity by selling a property you have in today's interest rate environment is a logical calculation that investors should take when trying to decide what to do with their property. 1031 exchange is usually the answer. 

A lot of investors seem to gloss over the price of a pre-payment penalty but in a Most likely dropping rate environment over the next few years that 3 year PPP can be quite costly if you cannot refi with out a large cost. 

This creates a particularly challenging environment for the investor in a general sense:- A regional vacation market- Competing not with other rational investors, but with people who just have a mountain home; and therefore are fine to run it at a loss.- Competition can and actually will increase in bad times, because people who own casually for second homes will try to get something instead of nothing by listing their properties for the first time.- People will fight to give everything they have to keep their primary residence, but if their second or vacation home becomes a pain in the rear, they’ll sell.

Finding good yields is tough in this environment. 

They will, and in today litigious environment thats a lawsuit. 2.

If you're providing an "up-scale" environment and hope to attract more guests of this calibre (I do; they don't quibble about higher nightly rates and rarely cause problems) then I recommend white duvet covers and wash them after each guest.  

Long term I anticipate construction costs will generally soften as the high-rate environment continues and stifles development.

So I started from scratch 3 years ago and purchased one by one 10 rental single family houses in the last 3 years, all in my 20 miles neighbouring environment upstate NY.

@Mark TaleonCashflow and appreciation in this environment of high interest rates are hard to achieve at the same time.