Hello Michael and best of luck in your last year/season!

I even named them the #3 non-seasonal market in the US today in our BiggerStays weekly newsletter here based on numerous metrics.

Also, it depends how good of a deal you get and how good an operator (or the one you work with) are.Assuming you buy the "right" property in the "right" place overseas, you'd typically have a higher unlevered ROI overseas because a) a like-kind property would be cheaper and b) the (high) season could be longer and therefore the revenue higher.The US used to have the advantage of the financing (availability + interest rate).

From now to April has been a slower season for us in that our properties stay vacant for longer this time of the year.

The storm didn’t hit them too hard—dodged a bullet this time!

I run across the word Seasoning” referencing loans.  

Same as @John Underwood, @Diaz Principe Nicolas.I would love to get more off season bookings but there ins't much call for a iced in lake house with a foot of snow on the ground and the lake being frozen over.It is fun to see how many turkeys end up on the deck and to watch if wolves use the frozen lake to move around.

Gaining Experience: Shadowing a seasoned investor is a fantastic idea!

I underwrote them to cash flow as a LTR, but then bit the bullet and made them STR’s and so far it’s working.

Every year off season I get a baseball player to comes to stay to be close to his son.