to travel? 

I rent my STR's to travelling workers with a per diem. 

I think we'll plan on traveling to visit a couple of the cities we're interested in. 

One thought that's in the back of my mind though is the potential for turning it into a vacation rental down the road when travel opens back up again. 

I've traveled around the world a lot, and am now looking to try my hand at investing with property.

Other than the obvious tweaks of raising min pricing or base prices, any other ideas/suggestions those of you using them can share to manage the seemingly broken algorithms we're now seeing due to locks owns, STR bans, and cross-border travel restrictions?

In my spare time, I enjoy fiction writing, hiking with my bloodhound and traveling the roads-less-traveled. 

I just went through this (as I had Traveler's for years), I tried two brokers and both came in at the same rate. 

You might be able to do medium term rental (traveling nurses, etc) if you're near the hospital, or you might find success anyways with traditional long term tenants. 

But people simply aren't traveling at the same rate they were 90 days ago, and won't be for a while.