Places close to the festivals command much higher rates during the festivals, but much lower rates/occupancies the rest of the year (unless they are super special or unique in some way).  

Write up a small marketing pitch to get perspective tenants excited about your property, the realtor won't know the area or the features of the property like you. 

Every case is different, you are in a unique position to gain a lot of power over this person, you will own his home and decide his future in a way if you buy this property.

There are just a few very unique situations in which I (myself, personally) would willingly take on boarders.That being said, there are ways you can make it work.

In my eyes you are just paying money for no reason because it isn't a selling feature nor increases your cash flow. 

Hot Prospector has a VM drop feature, but we just didn't do much with it.  

QuickBooks will keep track of your income minus expenses per property by turning on the "Class Feature" in QuickBooks. 

Zillow lets me keep track of values across my portfolio as well, but it doesn't have these subtle yet important features that help me keep track of my portfolio and so I resort to my own Excel table periodically.

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