She is highly noise sensitive and constantly complained that I wasn't holding her neighbors to the "quiet use" portion of the lease.

at 7.5% interest I would suspect 11% is high unless you are an excellent manager of class C properties.

@Preston Forsberg I finally got on a video call with customer service from Guesty which was helpful.

At first STR’s were highly profitable in Gainesville until the number of available Airbnbs went up which in the non peak months drove down prices.

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

It gets you out of competing with hotels and allows you to charge high prices in peak season.

Hello All,I just thought I would introduce myself, my name is Cyndi and I hope to learn a thing or 2, about real estate investing in a very high cost area. 

It does also cap rent increases to no more than 8.5% which while annoying (probably most especially in NY, where price of living is high), does at the same time help the tenants out as well as helps stop tenants from leaving for no reason other than huge rent increases. 

My insite is based upon the type of high quality service I provide. 

I suspect that until I get both investment properties fully leased that my debt to income ratio will be too high.