For us, the following softwares have proven useful in making our STRs more hands-off:- Pricing Tool: PriceLabs - dynamic, data-driven pricing tool that auto-updates your listings, optimizing income and occupancy by adjusting prices based on market data and trends. - Cleaner Scheduling Manager: TurnoverBnb - automates scheduling and paying cleaners at its core, but can also systematize guest check-out and reviews. - Channel Manager: Guesty - allows you to list your STR on multiple platforms (Airbnb, VRBO, etc.) and manage it all from one place.

As that endeavor is very sales and marketing driven.. and one needs to week through a ton of tire kickers to find the for real buyers.. 

The larger ones tend to be more quantity versus quality driven. 5) No warzones.

I have driven it dozens of time ...

If Apartment A is a 2bed/1bath with washer/dryer and Apartment B is a 1bed/1bath with no washer/dryer, Apartment A should pay a higher rate.

Essentially, the portion of the property’s income considered UDFI is based on the percentage of rental income derived from debt.For example, Property A is purchased for $100,000.

Thank you for the great post btw  When Figure did the virtual appraisal for me (completely driven by publicly available data, no human involved), they simply just added the ADU sqft to the main house's and gave me a number within minutes of application.

We are seeing our rents and housing cost driven up by the better paying remote workers coming to our area.It is definitely creating a supply and demand imbalance which has greatly effected rents and housing costs which is in turn driving more development. 

I have started a one-on-one accountability group with a lifelong friend of mine (he isn’t necessarily real estate driven, but we still use each other to hold one another accountable for our own personal goals).

The Bay Area in general has always been economically driven, not housing driven.