Joshua Tree STR Market

[James S Tomaszewski]

I'm actively looking for an investment property to use as a short term rental. I am gravitating towards Joshua Tree and the surrounding area but I had a few questions for those with properties and experience out there.

1) There are A LOT of properties out there, do you feel like the area is over-saturated with AirBnbs or are there enough bookings to go around? I've looked in a couple other vacation areas nearby and it doesn't seem any are as lucrative.

2) Do you think Landers and Johnson Valley are too far from the action to make sense? I've run some properties about 30 min north of Joshua tree through AirDNA and they show the same occupancy rate as J Tree, 29 Palms, etc. but when I spoke to a realtor about it, he reccomended against Johnson Valley because of how far it was.

[Jason Kudo]

1) If the property is nice, has the right amenities, photographs well, and is operated properly, you should do fine in Landers and Johnson Valley.

2) I do think people looking to stay closer to the park are going to look at Johnson Valley further down the list but if it comes to it, they will book in Johnson Valley too and there are plenty of people who want to be as far away from other people as possible. LOL! Johnson Valley also has the off-roading crowd that books regularly too. Landers isn't a problem at all.