Correspondingly, sales dollar volume increased 4.3% in Austin to $696 million, but fell 2.2% across the metro to $1.49 billion.Pending sales rose in both markets, climbing 16.3% in Austin and 8.2% metro-wide, signaling potential demand strength heading into the fall.

Make sure your margins are wide because things will probably come out of nowhere and increase your costs.

Booked each weekend in September, but at $340/night (well below my target for my 5 bedroom amenity packed home) and with my calendar wide open for future events I would have normally raised prices for.Honestly, I don’t love the experience with vacation rental PM so far.

I would expect that there are upgrades (handrails, wide hallways etc.) that may need to be done.

Hmmm, it made world wide news, but okay "Cincinnati beatdown"A violent street brawl erupted in downtown Cincinnati on the early morning of July 26, 2025, at the corner of Fourth and Elm Streets, resulting in six civilians being injured, including a woman identified as Holly who sustained life-altering brain damage and a severe concussion after attempting to intervene. 

The courses / mentors rely on the success of a small percentage to show their programs work but you have to ask would they have been able to do it on their own for a fraction of what the program cost.I did not see a cost associated with the Flipstress program after doing a Google search - 95% of what came up was from the Flipstress program itself which would have me question how big it is and effective the program is on a wide scale.Before sending any money I would see if you can find anyone that has used the program and find out what it did for them. 

So it sounds like there is indeed a market for such a product, if it actually delivered what it promised: A perpetually up-to-date database of all STR related regulations for every municipality nation-wide, with a filterable map-like interface. 

Owner occupied is matched 95% in DealMachine and 85% overall system-wide.

You’ll get a wide range of perspectives here.If you’re still hunting for your first opportunity, you might want to explore markets where the entry price is lower, but cash flow is stronger - often in the Midwest and Southeast.

The word investor definitely covers a wide spectrum, and not all approaches are the same.