Talking with clients, literally every day for the past 20 months, has given me a lot of insight into what kinds of challenges they face with STR software.I am just looking to network, maybe answer a few questions, and learn something.

This literally is the equivalent of buying a list of vegans, to market baby-cow burgers to.it is not just a bad audience for us... it is the WORST POSSIBLE audience for us.

Visibility drives clickability, and not using the full length of the ad to add keywords and business-related details is a missed opportunity when you’re fighting for every click in Google Ads.Conclusion:If you know you want to get off-market seller leads from Google, and already committed the budget for it, make sure your ads are optimal and that your keyword selection will not cause you to appear on ones that will waste you time and money.The Google Ads landscape is fiercely competitive in today’s market, demanding an investment of several thousand dollars per month to gain meaningful traction.

There is no way that resident can afford a 500 jump, and I ended up losing thousands of dollars.Real estate is a business, collecting a future stream of revenue, and you need to be in control of the revenue and expensesGino

I am thousands of miles away in Vancouver, WA. 

OOS investing is not as easy as advertised, and if you pick a market thousands of miles away based solely on numbers it may be tough to build a network and get started. 

You are going to be thousands in the whole before you ever start and any cashflow you get from a rental will be eaten up in tax and corporate filings.

The 2nd was the literal 1 on 1 time with the one and only @Scott Trench in the "how to use your BP profile to grow your biz" breakout. 

I still wasted hundreds of dollars on his program but at least I didn't pay full price in thousands.

I know from experience that contractors disappear, tenants stop paying rent (good luck if you're in a blue state..sold everything in NY for this reason), interest rates go up as we've witnessed over the last couple of years, anomalies happen (Covid literally effed a lot of us investors).Not to be discouraging, but i've been through all of these and if you can get through it, great.