They eat it, because sometimes guests leave in impeccable shape and they're done in 1/2 the time. 

VRBO is flailing as ABNB continues to eat their lunch.

I considered doing in park flips but am always worried that the high space rent would eat up my profit.

My plan is to have a nest egg of money for each property in case things go wrong- long period of vacancy, roof/water heater/furnace replacement.

Thats my conern the risk portion of it but I do have to invest the money otherwise my healthcare costs will eat it up and I dont want that.

We are wanting to scale and struggling with how to eat the elephant here ; )

(BTW, I have a hypothesis that because it smells so bad and is full of VOCs, original formula MH Ready Patch is repellent to boring and wood-eating insects, but that's just my wild guess).

We are approaching the capital to buy a cheap cabin in cash if we wanted to, but feel like that isn't the best use of our nest egg. 

And there is damn good reason for it, the operational impact and expenses will eat you ALIVE! 

They'd get so mad, that it made me think there was a strategy to get us to eat the costs.