Real estate income fluctuates dramatically year-to-year, season-to-season, but you can stabilize that by living off a budget and not spending your earnings.Once you've learned how to stabilize, then you should be setting extra money aside and investing.

Number never will the only thing that has the power to fight over the markets fluctuation is your mindset and skills and luckily you have the power to refine those and morph ;) 

I use Beyondpricing.com to automate the pricing so it fluctuates throughout the seasons--that has helped immensely in keeping it booked.  

Then you have issues like this, directly from an current appraisal that basically says there is no way to value the property: "The problem with the MC data presentation is that the subject's submarket is so small, wild fluctuations can appear from period to period...

Until demand is met there may be short term fluctuations, but the market will always return to the trend.

There are NO shortcuts to accomplishing this process, you either need to hire someone who knows how or learn how which takes time and lots of practice.For ARV, you must use SOLD comps just like an appraiser would use within 1/2 mile and within the last 6 months (although many markets now need to be within last 3 months since price fluctuations have increased so much.

@Cody Petersen my schedule fluctuates quite a bit, some weeks I could make it, some weeks not.

I also feel that the area has had pretty steady growth over my lifetime and isn't likely to have fluctuations like some places that have a single industry.So please offer your opinions on agents, PMs and towns.ThanksSharon

You're also shielding yourself against market fluctuations.

You have to add up the fluctuating 12 months and divide by 12 to get the average.