Every Wednesday at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT
How to Avoid a Bad STR Buy
Most bad short-term rental buys fail the same few tests. Every Wednesday, Chief Economist Jamie Lane runs a full underwrite on a real address, live in the product.
- The five checks worth running on every property.
- How to underwrite any address from end to end.
- How to decide whether a deal is worth committing to, or walking away from.

Five tests, one real address, 30 minutes.
Included with any AirDNA subscription.
Your host:
- Jamie Lane, Chief Economist at AirDNA
Can't make it? Register anyway and we'll send the recording.
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Tests run on every address
15M+
Active listings tracked
120K+
Global markets covered
30 min
Every Wednesday, 12:30pm ET
STR underwriting webinar FAQ
A 30-minute live session, held every Wednesday at 12:30pm ET and included with any AirDNA subscription, where Chief Economist Jamie Lane runs a full short-term rental underwrite on a real address. Most bad buys fail the same few tests, so the session works through five major indicators in order and shows you exactly where each one sits in your own account. Then he stays on to answer questions about anything else in the platform.
Start from a real address. A live listing or a for-sale property, ideally one an attendee brings.
Run the five tests. The same five every week, in the same order, so you can repeat the underwrite yourself.
See where each one lives. Every test maps to a specific place in your AirDNA account.
Reach a verdict, then ask anything. Invest or walk away, with the reasoning shown, then open Q&A.
You start from a specific address rather than a market average, then work through the checks that decide whether the deal holds up: what the property should realistically earn, which listings it genuinely competes with, how seasonal the demand is, and what the local rules allow. Doing all of that on one address is a full underwrite, and it is what this session walks through live every week.
Come to this session. It is the shortest route from a new login to a decision you can defend, because it shows you which parts of your account matter for a real buying decision and in what order to use them. Rather than touring every feature, it runs the checks that actually turn a yes into a no.
Anyone with an active AirDNA subscription, particularly in the first few weeks. It is most useful if you are a new subscriber who has logged in once and is not sure where to start, an investor with a live deal who needs the numbers to hold up under scrutiny, an agent or broker who needs to hand a defensible projection to a client, or a longer-term subscriber who suspects they are only using part of the product.
AirDNA tracks more than 15 million active short-term rental listings across more than 120,000 markets worldwide, with historical performance data going back to 2014. Every check is run against that dataset in a live account, so you leave knowing the clicks rather than holding notes about them.
Yes. It is included with any AirDNA subscription at no extra cost, and you can attend as many times as you like.
Every Wednesday at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT. The session repeats weekly with the same format, so you register once and join whichever Wednesday works for you.
30 minutes: the five checks run live on a real property, then open questions about anything in the platform.
AirDNA's economists, led by Chief Economist Jamie Lane, who also hosts the STR Data Lab podcast.
This one, if you have subscribed. Thursday is the STR Deal Hunt, aimed at people who have not subscribed yet, and it searches for a market and a property from scratch. This session assumes a paid account and a property in mind, and pressure-tests it against five specific checks.
Yes, please do. Bring a property or a market and we may run all five checks on yours live. We also stay on afterwards for questions about anything else in the platform.
Yes. Register anyway and we will send you the recording, whether or not you attended live. Because it repeats every Wednesday, you can watch a recording first and then join a live week to get your own address underwritten.
Yes. Register once and join any Wednesday. Many subscribers come back a few weeks in with sharper questions once they have run the checks on a real deal themselves.