I network with hundreds of property managers around the country.

Data center investment in the area is in the hundreds of billions and population continues to grow from people moving here from CA.

The guest found you on the platform, so the platform provider deserves compensation for the marketing service they provided. ehh, i think guests are getting smarter now too seeing that many hosts direct book, and trying to save a few hundred $$ and book direct.

Second the are going to assume that it will cost them, even if you tell them it is free, and a lot of them have spent hundreds of dollars on app fees.

They've made tens of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands after a sale.

Work to save a lot of cash (Which I just reduced my 401K savings rate to only cover my employer’s full match so that’ll be a couple hundred extra each month and I’m about to fully pay off my car in six months and that’ll be an extra $500/mo.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

There were hundreds of stories like this across the western WA area.

For saving a couple of hundred dollars a year we gain the "privilege" pay $1K-3K in general  deductible and $4K-6K in hail/wind deductible (and likely 80% of the cost of a new roof here in TX).

Even though I had financed hundreds of deals prior to doing my first one personally, I made a lot of mistakes.