From my experience of owning and operating 3 STR's in San Antonio, the mid term rentals have been great during the late fall and winter months, but you'll definitely want to take advantage of STR during the late spring/ summer here.

In any case, I attach below a screenshoot of the seasonality page for Fresno, CA.You can see that the demand is higher in the summer than in the winter season.

Quote from @Marc Winter: Why bother--just say NO!

You’ll find people “making fun” of the people who bought in 2019/2020 because they were going to get crushed.

@LeNelle Parker-Sims welcome, but understand we like to have a little fun with newbies that intro themselves like this is a dating site:https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/2015-04-01-biggerpockets-love-dating-site-real-estate-entrepreneursPlease ask specific questions we can help you with!

@Marc Winter we are  struggling with this exact issue on carpet vs laminate but being a second floor condo sometimes its noise and sometimes there is alot of subfloor work to put in the vinyl, increasing the cost alot.

Have fun with the search!

But managing/monitoring a lot of them isn't that much fun in the long run.

I remember when I completed my first ground-up new construction here in Chicago - FELT AMAZING to finish.Our biggest lessons learned were around getting the water service done early on because of our harsh winters and making sure we keep our designer in check! 

That will be a fun eviction process and you get to be labeled as the bad guy.In other parts of the country this is quite common, but no so common in Dallas.