With lack of inventory it’s those who get their first have best chance of winning - so trying to get out ahead is something to consider

btw, we;ve bought and sold over 1,000 properties for our own inventory and that was the only time we ever collected on a title insurance claim.David Krulac, Bigger Pockets Podcast #82

And then you had a massive boom in building so even when covid was over, you had too much inventory and less people with all that money.

You could be drop shipping from an Amazon warehouse business using leveraged inventory and doing the exact same thing or borrowing billions to buy NVIDIA GPU's to retrofit and add on to your own servers like my favorite business does, SMCI. 

One key partner we work with that might work for you hasn't provided us with inventory for 3 weeks now. 

The Branson market has fewer 3/3 units in the inventory, so you should do pretty well depending on cost and location.

Is anyone using a good inventory management system to track supplies in your STR?  

Loans maturing and in some locations lots of inventory coming online. 

Fix & flip may be lucrative in a hot market with high buyer demand and low inventory, while buy & hold can provide stability and long-term wealth accumulation.

NJ is not a great place to invest a small chunk of cash with the taxes in the more Northern parts and the very low inventory.