You will have ability to do greater volume, to explore additional area's, other strategies, it's a game changing potential. 

Property management contract: Includes provisions for scaling fees based on deal volume and many other techniques promoted in the BiggerPockets community.Lease agreement: Includes terms needed to ensure that your rents increase with each lease renewal.Contractor agreement: Includes bonus payments and penalty fees for late work to help hold your contractors accountable.Contractor Scope of work document - give this to your contractor when asking for your bid so that all your bids are itemized and can be compared apples to apples.

Total dollar volume for full-year 2023 fell 12.6 percent to $40B;December single-family home sales fell 6.2 percent year-over-year with 6,103 units sold;Total December property sales declined 4.9 percent to 7,395 units;Total dollar volume for December fell 3.7 percent to $2.9B;At $330,000, the single-family home median price was unchanged;The single-family home average price was also unchanged at $407,817;Single-family homes months of inventory expanded to a 3.3-months supply;The townhome/condominium market experienced declining sales throughout 2023, and in December, volume fell 7.0 percent with the average price up 6.7 percent to $258,137 and the median price down 9.3 percent to $235,000;Townhome/condominium inventory grew from a 2.0-months supply to 3.5 months.SOURCE HAR

However, sales transaction volume is down considerably.

I’m reaching out to those who have experience with direct bookings to help me understand the true value of this approach.My Perspective:-While direct bookings could save on platform fees, my concern is whether this saving is offset by the potential challenges in managing damages and guest issues without the support structure provided by Airbnb or VRBO.I'm Looking For Insights On:-Your experience with the volume of direct bookings versus platform bookings.

We are hyper focused on providing our LP a solid passive return while we learn the ropes and hope to repeat/increase volume as we gain traction.

Absolutely, if I was focused solely on flips for income this would be too thin unless I was pumping out a huge volume of transactions. 

Followed by potential issues with tenant volume, small town power brokers, lack of property management etc.

All methods are market dependent.... fastest way will include sheer volume with a little or no money method.

I'd say the same about me, but wholesaling isn't my core business these days, and my volume is down as a result.