It's rare, but occasionally you can find a value add play where you'd be buying into a property with much lower than market rents where you have to do a renovation in order to get higher rents, and then you can get the 1% rule.

If you have a lower gross rental income per bookings (say $150 average booking for a small condo) and a similar $20 cost per basket, but that basket includes nothing that is tied to the identity of the property or makes it unique, it seems likely the repeat booking rate and likelihood of positive review will have minimal impact.

If it’s a lower priced I always charged a minimum, which could be 6-10% just for the listing side.

Louis, MO due to the generally lower prices.

My costs tend to be much lower than most given our volumes but it at least will give you a barometer.  5k on plumbing sheet rock and 15k as worst case on mold remediation as a sight unseen ball park and you are under 20k worst case.   

FHA is great if you're going to owner occupy 2-4 unit, but conventional 5% wins on SF-- the mortgage insurance cost is lower and easier to remove.

I have flipped over 35 lower end properties, but hesitate going to high in Naples and Ft.

I am assuming that you are referring to the fact that as a house flipper you will be paying ordinary income rates rather than the lower capital gains tax rates.I suppose you can look at this as a penalty, but I wouldn't look at it that way. 

The loan balance on some of the pre-foreclosure leads were way lower than the home value.

Inventory is so low you want to leverage buyers anxiety.