Second, IF the market starts to get soft, travelers decide they cannot afford a vacation, or competition in my market pushes down nightly rates, I am ok because as long as I can get weekenders in there paying a decent rate, my expenses are paid AND I still have a house to use. 

IE - we don't want to get red flagged or kicked off of the platform because we are promoting our own direct bookings. 

- What platform/website do you use to project occupancy, average nightly price, gross income, etc?

Hop on a platform like AirDNA and their data sets/charts only plot back about 12 months, so visually it looked like a GREAT time to get in to STR's.

I ran numbers as a mid-term rental (such as for travel nurses using a corp lease platform like Furnished Finder) and it also negatively cash flows at about $200/month.                                            

Brandon Turner's book "Rental Property Investing" was the first time I had heard of this platform.

If your cleaner does properties close together it makes their life way easier. for automated messaging I use guesty for hosts but I have multiple listings on multiple platforms.

Ideally trying to stay away from conventional lending since they require the GC to manage the entire project and GC's in the area are incompetent. 40 homes under my belt in another state that doesnt require GC and I have a GC that will manage some of the project under our platform to use their license, quality control, but not to mange subs/payments.Id prefer to pay for details out of pocket and get reimbursed at milestones from the HML. 

And I think this applies to the hosts, the guests and the platforms themselves - particularly Airbnb.

If you are using an investment management platform many of those will also do the aml/kyc checks as well