All Forum Posts by: Wilson Hunter

Hello, my friend bought a really nice 4BR lakefront home on Lake Hartwell (Georgia / South Carolina border). Due to his life schedule it’s probably going to be vacant for the next 6 months, so I told him I’d ask around if someone wants to get some furniture and arbitrage it. Feel free to message me directly.

Don’t pay more than 550 for 2BR in this market

Thanks, all! I’m going with the twin over double bunk based on feedback. And nice beard, Michael.

 But which one!! Haha.

Thanks for the feedback :)

 This is a tiny room in old school beach box - unfortunately I couldn’t do 2 twins so it’s either a single full or a bunk (could do the twin over full bunk).

I wondered if the full might be me more diversity in who stays there but if the bunks are valuable for the kids I’ll just roll with it. I could do twin over twin bunk and supply complimentary blow-up mattress in the closet…

Would y’all do a bunk bed or a full in a small kids’ room? Two other bedrooms have a king and queen, and there’s a queen pull-out couch in the living room. Thanks!

Even though "it depends" is obviously the most accurate answer, I believe that the 15% rule of thumb is the best heuristic to use to scan STR deals.

 Hey I really appreciate this detailed response, Ken! It does need to be pull-down because of constraints of the space and needing to have it come over a window. I could instead do it on the inner wall but would sacrifice seating space, and the listing pic vibe would not look nearly as sweet. I will DM you for details, thanks!

It sounds like you want to buy a vacation home more than a vacation rental investment. I think you should either go all-in on crunching those investment numbers to find a market that works best or figure out where you want to vacation and then be happy if it mostly pays for itself in rent. Going 50/50 on it in the analysis is hard to do.

I’d use Rob B at Movement for conventional and TN State Bank for anything outside the box.