Other than the typical fruit basket, chocolates or wine.

Stick with it and don't quit before you come to realize the fruits of your sacrifices.

The low hanging fruit is new uniform signage, parking lot sealing/striping and upgrading exterior lighting.  

However, most of them have either been contacted already or they are still accepting the fruits of their rentals.

May it be an even more fruitful year for all of us :)

Make sure to give rooms special touches even though you won't great people bottles of water, fruit, bag of chips can go a long way for a hungry traveler.

That could increase your holding costs and eat into that profit as well.An old investor I used to work with would say "the juice ain't worth the squeeze" and for $120k you might as well do some much less risk SFR flips that have a much bigger pool of buyers and will easily sell in a month or less.

You are, however, increasing your workload and risk exposure significantly.Now, if we lived somewhere warm, or in an urban area, where there is year-round demand for STR's and you can reasonably expect to rent it out the majority of weeks in the year, everything changes and the additional juice may become worth the additional squeeze.

I still hear far too many stories of athletes not being responsible with the fruits of their labor. 

Note that having a "waiting list" is also a way to juice the data.