Quote from @Justin Miller: Airbnb and VRBO's automated systems actively scan messages for external links, especially those leading to sites where direct booking is possible.Even if the link points only to your Guidebook page, if that page is hosted on your direct booking website and is "one click" away from a pricing or booking page, the platforms consider it an attempt to solicit off-platform bookings, which violates their Terms of Service.

We need to ban together and get some papers on them before they close up shop, Tom and Matt and Kristoine - and just form a new company under a new name.This appears to be deliberate fraud.Sorry to hear this.  

I hope to hit 50% of income from the website in that market next year. 

Enforcement / penaltiesNon‐compliance can lead to permit revocation and bans (e.g., if two violations occur the STR operations can be suspended for up to one year). 

Quote from @Bryan Adams: @Ken M Well the whole point of my question was if there is any advantages to have a RE license# , like is there  any specific software or website that only agents can use ,like there was one  (realtracs.net) that I had a friend who let me borrow his license number and ID to log in to the website to get the area comp and much more detail info that I was not able to get it as a non-Agent.I hope this makes sense and did not complicated my initial question.Your friend would lose his or her license in one second for doing that.

The rent-to-own websites are awful from what i can tell and there's no way people are actually doing deals on there.

Just be careful on proposed STR bans like parts of Summit county. 

I've attached a screenshot of the letter of approval and a link to their website.

@Dion Rivera  on that website they also have the 2026 rates, because the Federal year started October 1, 2025, so they are already in 2026 fiscal year.

They’ve got solid job growth, friendly STR/MTR laws, and reasonable prices — you can still find properties in the $200K–$250K range that rent well.On the Airbnb ban, since you’re going direct-booking anyway, that’s actually an opportunity.