The family upgrade, the "just because" bigger home buyer, the empty nester downgrades, the 2nd home, etc are choosing to wait and see, due to news of inflation and interest rates.

My own belief on RE is that we are in a more challenging period than 2012 to 2021 largely due to rate hikes.  

If you have properties, a great way to promote them is with Facebook Lead Form Ads, advertise the specific property (or better yet, a list of properties) and it will attract buyers.

However, the lodging tax is NOT included in this average daily rate. 

Surveys are my area of expertise ;)Ultimately, I tend to agree with you that allowing pets, with specific guidelines and screening criteria for good pet owners, will often yield greater occupancy thus allowing you to increase rates.

While it's not necessarily a deal breaker it's important to ensure that you are paying a reduced rate for the house.

2) Could your money make more than the interest rate for the home somewhere else?

In 2023 I did not rent the units out or advertise them.

I am pretty sure they don't have a buyer higher than my price because I saw them just advertise it again at my price minus 5k.

Many people don't make a profit, obviously odds of success get better with experience/good team, etc.consider until you have more time to commit to instead look at buying publicly traded equity REITs, not mortgage REITS, they are trickyget subscription to Seeking Alpha and follow Brad Thomas, Jussi Askola and many others research/writing to start withREITS have beaten the SP500 last 50 yrs, by a lot, 13% to 11% just in last 20 yrs too, and they have taken a temporary beating due to sudden rise in 10 yr rates and hence CAP rates, but their underlying rent roles have only gone up.