I use it, though I hate it, but I avoid problems by setting criteria such as how much in advance a party has to book, minimum number of nights, requiring either a large deposit or purchase of insurance, house rules & photo id requirements prior to arrival, withholding check-in information until just before arrival and sending it to a verified cell phone number.

not heard of a house selling this low in Portland for a decade or longer.. 

I just did a podcast where we discussed this and how people are in for rude awakenings when its takes 3x as long and costs 2x as much to renovate from afar if you are not there on an almost daily basis.

Denver is an attractive metro for a few reasons, so I downloaded monthly price and rent growth at the zip code level from Zillow’s public housing data.I then used a ranking algorithm to sort the top 10 zip codes for investing based on monthly average price growth and monthly average rent growth (both by percent growth), from 2019-2024.

Welcome to the forum, typically a house isn't selling because of price.

Although rates are starting to creep down, the cost of housing is not.

Hi Matt, I have family in that area & we always get a rental house when we go to the beach.

Labor costs are 20-30% higher than my core market in Denver, which was very surprising to me, which makes finding a PM that has in house maintenance, electrical, plumbing, HVAC very valuable. 

I plan to sell quite a bit of stock this year (2024) in order to fund some renovations and want to use the depreciation of these properties (if possible) to offset my capital gains when i sell the stock.

Additionally, it can help maximize renovations and improvements.A Cost Segregation study is an IRS approved federal income tax tool that increases near term cash flow by utilizing shorter recovery periods for depreciation to accelerate return on investment.