You'll also find some clients that like to juice the commission on performance metrics, similar to what you posted, but that is also relatively rare as most owners feel if they're paying you north of $300,000, you should just try to get top dollar with strong terms.

Even the safest, least risky investments can and do go belly up from time to time. 

I mean a general recession, we had flat/negative GDP the preceding quarters, S&P down 20% +.Not sure what more people want.What folks don't realize with investor saturation, tech, and everything in between, the market has a profound way of realizing positions and getting in & out of them to where the markets overcorrect and sometimes move so quick all the juice in it happens to squeeze out so fast.

I am trying to figure all that out - is the juice worth the squeeze? 

I used to manage them when I was learning, and I understand people who want to learn, but juice just isn’t worth the squeeze to me. 

You'll occassionally get direct inquiries for your listing, but to really get the most juice out of it, you need to work the housing requests.

So I got the creative juices flowing to come up with a solution to make it all happen.

I cannot get over the hump with that, more time, more work and more costs for me and I can't convince myself that the juice is worth the squeeze.

Several people I know have left listing on Airbnb all together as the juice is not worth the squeeze for them.

Bottom line, the wine isn't worth the fermentation...errr...juice worth the squeeze...