Thank you all for your insightful responses; I hope you all had a great holiday!

My husband and I (ok...my husband) are pretty handy, so we aren't afraid of doing a lot of work ourselves, and I know dealing Iowa winters will mean we need to take some precautionary measures, but it seems like low cost of entry for investing (we just got our first SFH this fall)

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Hope you guys have a great holiday and may the new year treat you well!

Started this investment mainly as a weather change from Iowa in the winter. 

Always the same canned answer when asking for pics/updates "holiday, weather." 

I might order it up and try it out over the holidays to see how well it works.$20-27 - Seartapedic Pillow Top Mattress Topper - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sertapedic-Pillow-Top-Mattress-To...We have the Black edition from Costco on the beds at our lake house.

My predictions is that rate will go down after holiday, if you want strategy let talk about it

STRs also have the seasonal aspect to it for the winter time in COS and long term rentals are steady. 

I need it for the winter time only.