Raise your screening criteria to weed out the bad apples in the future.

Do one task at a time in each app so you can compare apples to apples.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.

There's much more at play than your overall income, so it is very possibly not apples to apples.

It's apples to oranges.

The point is, learn to compare apples to apples.

Apple or Google would have been some of the best investments to make over the last decade or two...

About the house: It's a 3bd (easily can be 4), 3ba with a huge barn (old airplane hanger) that's been grandfathered in, built over the water with an additional bathroom and partially built ADU above w/ it's own meter.

Your guess is as good as mine at this point, and having a "Plan B" for all your rental properties is essential now more than ever.The folks from Atlanta, Kansas City, and Ohio are going to laugh at my "great" Seattle numbers haha- if we remove cleaning fees (pass through) and platform / marketing fees we can do a "apples to apples-ish" comparison to a long term rental.

The cost is the same once you compare apples to apples to a traditional CMU or concrete wall.

The wealth of resources included is extremely impressive: Over 200 lessons and 80+ hours of video lessons in the masterclass component, 10+ live calls per month with specialists in various aspects of STRs (including at least one a month with Rob), a growing community that gives you a built-in network of fellow STR investors/realtors/lenders right off the bat (1.5K+ members of the Facebook group), and lots of perks like downloadable spreadsheets/resources and membership to a group purchasing organization that gives 30-75% discounts on furniture from West Elm, Crate&Barrel, Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma, among others.