How: Before pulling the trigger, make sure you have the right players on your team to help shoulder the load and look out for "blind spots".There are many Apartment Investing / Syndication resources out there.

I'm coming from the Oil and Gas World, and dealt with deeds and Oil leases both of which the instrument date is dominant.  

VRBO seems to be bigger in the "legacy" vacation markets that predate OTAs, which sounds like your market is, while AirBnb is more dominant in urban areas and college towns.

Recently, HH Gregg and Gander Mountain have opened stores; several other new players will be coming into the market soon.

Instead, he started with one thing, made it the dominant product in its market, found that he had excess cash flow that could not be reinvested back into the business at the same ROIs, and started deploying the cash into other potentially profitable businesses.

Hoping some of you real players can clear this up for me....kind of confused on that note.

Our entire market is small (city pop under 85k), it's pretty easy to keep track of the players.

Like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, even the best players need a coach or mentor.

I would first start by talking to locals, and finding a few players in your area.

Through all of this, the public continues to be scammed by these game players.