Ice been researching the Augusta area for over 2 months trying to decide if and when to enter.

(Even though I am a terrible golfer and would much rather be ripping ice cold beers on a beach or riding a motorcycle), but you get the point.  

The potential in the short-term market is the icing, but it has to work if/when our national economy slows down. 

If property appreciates, then that is the icing on the cake.

And the icing on the cake- if your not using a buyer's agent, the listing agent just takes the full commission (6%) for the property.  

Are maintenance costs higher in general due to snow and ice?

I know I'm over simplifying, it doesn't seem that hard I would imagine @Jay Hinrichs saying "Questionable ethnics is like ice in your drink at a burger flipper, the higher the volume the more ice they put in your soda, and will use words like *cooling optimization* to defend the scant amount of soda in MY DRINK!" 

Some like to call it, "icing on the cake" but, it's not like we can't make a reasonable projection of what it'll be say, 20 - 30 years from now so we prefer to call it, "putting your money to work for you".

There was also a water line for a refrigerator..... maybe someone forgot this is a 469 sq ft tiny house and fancy pants fridges with on demand water and ice take up precious floor space (and if they don't they are frigging expensive).Slightly annoyed, but still impressed.Then I swung by a week later.

I play hockey with a painter :).