Hosts brought with them cleaning services, interior designers and property-maintenance workers who helped build miniature property empires—so their plight has ripple effects that go far beyond their own listings.Airbnb hosts saw $1.5 billion in bookings vanish in mid-March as the travel industry froze, according to market-research firm AirDNA LLC, which analyzes bookings.

I appreciate the steps you provided, and am certainly going to be a sponge to all I can on BP and beyond.It seems you started by using the house hacking strategy, and stay primarily in CO.

My property is in Colorado Springs. 

This sounds great, at least I thought it was, but I was not ready to be a teacher, a dad, a worker, a landlord, a cook, and an investor all at the same time.

Have someone with a high income co-sign with you.

Esp notice March when the virus issues started and we were able to shift/adjust to helping essential workers and still generate income. 

It is then possible to compare across state boundaries.Here are the affluent zip code gross yield, for the nation's most demographically dynamic MSA:Indianapolis IN pop cum growth 30% , gross rental yield 10.6%Houston TX pop cum growth 41% , gross rental yield 8.6%Dallas Fort Worth pop cum growth 38%, gross rental yield 8.4%Atlanta GA pop cum growth 34% , gross rental yield 7.8%Orlando FL pop cum growth 45% , gross rental yield 7.7%Des Moines IA pop cum growth 29% , gross rental yield 7.6%Charlotte NC pop cum growth 40% , gross rental yield 7.4%Jacksonville FL pop cum growth 29%, gross rental yield 7.4%Phoenix AZ pop cum growth 41% , gross rental yield 7.0%Raleigh Cary NC pop cum growth 60%, gross rental yield 6.7%San Antonio TX pop cum growth 39%, gross rental yieldNashville TN 40% 6.7%Colorado Springs CO 30% 6.5%Denver CO 29% 6.4%Charleston SC 36%, 6.4%Greenville SC 56% 6.4%Provo Orem UT 55% 6.2%Austin TX, 60% 5.6%You should note that local tax and insurance is much higher in Florida than other states so that 3% to 5% more needs to be deducted from gross yield to compare to other states such as Georgia or North Carolina.California's growing population MSA are San Bernardino, Stockton, and Bakersfield.

Do you ever see Kansas City becoming over saturated with investors and with continual tech boom going on, are you worried about sudden increases of cost of living in comparison to places like San Fran and Boulder, CO?

The location is Arvada, CO, and we were looking to put down 10-15%.

Anyone that worked with Westshore Mortgage & Investments Co., Inc. in the past?