You seriously shouldn't be on a public forum if you are this sensitive.Now instead of feeling insulted why not adapt your mindset and try to learn form someone that is successful at marketing.To tell an investor NOT to spend 5K in marketing because you risk blowing though it is bad advice, PERIOD.The guy has $5K set aside for THIS BUSINESS.

Marketing for off season rentals is more competitive, so I agree with John that you will want to adapt your listing to reflect off season offerings, advantages such as cozy fireplace, local events and festivals, even updated pictures showing the house in the spring or fall.

Why is it that every one adapting my methods get similar results, and when they adapt methods like the bigger companies and the like, results seem COMPLETELY random?

But I suppose there might be a kernel of that that you could adapt for your purposes since it's an issue that keeps coming up.

Adapt or die. 

The reason I love my signature is because water has the ability to adapt to any conditions.

I own a property management company in Memphis and we are successful through communicating to our tenants and investors, addressing maintenance issues immediately, treating our tenants with respect (tenants may be rude to us, but that does not give us the right to be rude back), providing excellent customer service, hiring good people and paying them well so that I can retain quality talent, creating a positive work place where people want to come to work, having great marketing, adapting to the market changes, organized well and keeping investor cost low through managing our vendors closely and leveraging the amount of business we give them into significant discounts off retail.The only investors that I know that ended up in bankruptcy court were the $0 down investors who did not know what they were doing and figured real estate was buy a house, rent it out and cash the checks.  

The first property is a huge struggle to learn, adapt, DIY, grow, and make mistaks.

If it doesn't, I will just need to adapt.

No comment here on flipping, but I will say, in some markets the general rules just do not apply - and if you want to succeed in that particular market you'll have to adapt to proceed.6.)