Hello All! New to the group and STR! We are in SC and have been looking for our first property! We have looked at so many listings and are quite overwhelmed at this point. We would love to spend $650-850,000 and then would have opportunity to add up to $100,000 for updates. Any help would be appreciated!

Glad you're here. Your first step: Head to the Classroom and complete the Welcome & Start Here course. It takes about 10 minutes and shows you exactly how to get the most out of this community. Once you've done that, come back here and introduce yourself in the comments. Tell us: 1. Where you're located 2. Where you are in your STR journey (learning, preparing, hunting, or scaling) 3. Your 90-day goal See you soon, — Matt

Hi! My husband Mike and I are from Charlotte, NC. We have one property in St. Andrews Scotland and one in Myrtle Beach, SC. I'd like to acquire 2 additional properties this year and prefer markets within a 4ish hour drive to Charlotte, NC. Looking forward to learning from everyone here!

Hey Squad! As promised - I sat down with Spencer Rascoff (Zillow co-founder) on Friday. And I brought YOUR questions into the room. Here's what came out of it: @Naomi Entwistle - You nailed it. I asked Spencer about building community features into a real estate platform. His exact words: "I love it. That's exactly what I would do." He didn't mention if Zillow is considering this, but said this is exactly what we should focus on with strIQ. He said the biggest moat isn't technology - it's community. He even connected me with two guys who've built massive real estate communities (one of them "did extremely well with only 4 employees" doing exactly this). The Waze model we talked about? He's all in. Crowdsourced intelligence from investors helping investors. That's where strIQ is headed. @Ben Temple - On AI disrupting real estate: His take: "You should think of AI as your co-founder." Not as a tool. As a partner. He said founders can now "hack mentorship for free" by feeding AI their business model and getting strategic guidance that used to require expensive advisors. (Sound familiar? That's literally what we're building into strIQ 2.0 with AI-powered deal analysis.) On strIQ's direction: I shared the strIQ Score concept to help people make more "confident" decisions (our 0-10 property rating) with him. His response: "I love it. I think it's super smart." He compared it to the Zestimate - make it provocative, make people debate it, and make it the thing everyone talks about. In summary: the guy who built Zillow validated exactly what we're building together. Community-powered intelligence for STR investors. You're not just members. You're the early believers building something with me. More updates coming as we build toward strIQ 2.0. -Matt

Hey Squad! Quick one for you. This Friday I’m sitting down with Spencer Rascoff - co-founder and former CEO of Zillow. I’ve got my own questions ready. But I want to bring your perspective into the room too. If you could ask the guy who helped build one of the biggest real estate platforms in the world ONE question - what would it be? Drop your best question in the comments. I’ll share the insights with you after the meeting. -Matt​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​