Blood, sweat, tears and patience.

Some of these cities include Flowery Branch, Dacula, and Sugar Hill, to name a few.Could you share a bit more about the type of lending you're planning to use?

To be clear, emergency is defined as "Fire, Flood, or Blood." 

Solid ratings are the life blood of a STR and you can't ask a Cadillac price for a Kia type property.

It's almost as if they can smell blood in the water.

Cash Flow is the life blood of your business.

This gives a healthy margin plus or minus the 1% since these are nominally median values and come from zillow (so taken with a large grain of salt).Finally, I personally have no desire to deal with rentals where it snows, so I filtered this mainly to the south (I left in the west, but nothing showed up and no offense to El Paso but it didn't just fit on the map).Metro and zip codes:Greensboro-High Point [27265]Raleigh [27610]Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia [28083, 28214]Columbia [29073, 29209, 29229]Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell [30014, 30058, 30088, 30134, 30135, 30180, 30213, 30228, 30248, 30253, 30273, 30294, 30296]Birmingham-Hoover [35040, 35235]Memphis [38018, 38125, 38637, 38671]Louisville/Jefferson County [40272] Baton Rouge [70726] Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington [75040, 75043, 75060, 75104, 75115, 75126, 75134, 75137, 75146, 75154, 75217, 75227, 75241, 76002, 76018, 76036, 76123, 76133, 76134, 76135, 76140, 76148, 76179]Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land [77045, 77047, 77083, 77084, 77086, 77088, 77089, 77303, 77346, 77373, 77388, 77396, 77449, 77489, 77493, 77521, 77545]San Antonio-New Braunfels [78109, 78223, 78233, 78252] El Paso [79924, 79936]

Working in the maple business my highest earning months of the year will be roughly January-mid April so I'm planning to purchase after the sugaring season. 

I hate the cheap sugar cones though, then I would do a cup.

Of course there is the Keurig which is from Costco, a set of 4 canisters with coffee pods, tea, creamers and sugar I got for $5.