As long as I remember to add off-site reservations to VRBO, I can accept instant book reservations on all my listings without the fear of double booking.

It's a terrible idea, if you stop using the tenant as an employee for any reason the tenant will instantly use that as the reason they don't have the rent money next month.  

I have owned a few of these homes over 300 of them and NEVER once sold one for "appraised value always less" so the instant equity theory in my mind is just a feel good its not reality because you will never sell it for that.. it all boils down to rental returns.. andfrom what your saying the market appears to have cleaned out the bad landlords the uneducated and undercapitalized landlords and you have some stability.. it had to happen sometime.

-So purchasing a home with instant equity that can be used as even more buying power in so many ways to expand on my portfolio is much more appealing.  

Since my goal was both equity and cash flow and I was new to this I instantly jumped into the Equity portion rather than letting the effects of the rehab on the property and financing build equity over time and this has hindered my growth in number of properties because I spent way too much Capital per $1 of cash flow.So, how much capital did I spend per dollar of cash flow to get a single dollar of cash flow?

Perhaps it isn't set as instant?

Isn't part of the BRRR Strategy to create instant equity?

A cell phone can instantly put you in contact with real estate agents and sellers while you are at a property.

A good deal ought to net you some instant equity, and cash flow from day one, or asap.You give the market and sellers too much credit.

You won't find that the MLS instantly opens the door to investments you couldn't find on Zillow, but it does help you learn your market by looking at historical data.