The first thing to focus on is understanding your target guests and tailoring your property to their needs.

I want to start smart and scale up as I learn the ropes, but I’m personally struggling to narrow down which area to focus on.If you’ve done this before, what advice would you give someone like me?

They focus on timeliness, accuracy, and user experience.

During the slow season, do you personally focus on getting more rentals, focus more on family/personal life, or do you do something else?

Last I heard, they were pausing their "master lease" options and focusing more on regular property management. 

But, I'd like to focus only on value-adding renovations (for rentals of course). 

I focused on adding modern luxury amenities to increase the property’s appeal to the high-end market.

If not, you could focus on other selling points, like the acreage or future ADU potential, but a garage would probably make the property more competitive.

Focus on the numbers rather than emotions.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.