IMPORTANT:--Guest communications, including setting up your automated messages--Price adjustments (key into seasonal pricing and important events in your area)--Listing description and noting amenities--Guest reviews--Learning from experienced hosts with great reviews (you can do this on many social media sites, including the Facebook group, Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth)UNIMPORTANT:--Watching your Ring Doorbell camera--Obsessing about minute details that other hosts are freaking out about--Being a control freak about ANYTHING related to this business. 

My name is Rudy Gore and I am a real estate agent in the Upstate of South Carolina.

I wouldn't necessarily say that this shift is here to stay, but we definitely have to make some changes to our acquisition process to accommodate creative deals and novations.This shift is due to the saturation of the major markets, resulting in newcomers in the business offering too much for properties and not delivering on those promises, realtors promising too much for listings only to have them heavily decreased or canceled six months later, and the small increase in supply that we have experienced since the beginning of the year.But yes!

Find a good agent and good lender, run some numbers, see homes and pull the trigger.

If you’re experienced and read through this whole thing please share what you think I should do.

Agent or direct? 

When I heard the real estate agent say closing costs will be 6%, I negotiated that the seller pay half.

Hey Matthew, I live and invest here and am getting started as an agent as well. 

Investor friendly agent who is looking for connections!

In fact, I still maintain my relationship with my agent because he's so good and saves me a lot of legwork when it comes to anything I'm interested in.