Interesting article that tries to explain why bookings are down.Part of it is weather and the other part illness.Anyway, link below for your reading pleasure.https://www.airdna.co/blog/airdna-market-review-us-january-2024?

When acquiring a building it's highly advisable to obtain the seller's financials so you can assign real, rather than wholly arbitrary and irrelevant numbers to your forecasting. 

When someone is exploring where to dump a ton of money, it would be smart to explore all options...not just the city with the best weather and tacos :-)

Then you have the ability to buy and weather storms. 

Overall, grateful you took the time to respond to the little guys like me.I think that your evaluation of the cash flow perspective in your response is a good forecast of how I should be viewing this investment property, even as I use it as a house hack in (maybe) the first couple of years I decide to live there. 

There’s still 80-plus golf courses, I pay $2600 in property taxes on a 4br house with a pool, most people are kind and generous, weather is wonderful (but still lows in the 30’s in February!)

TIA. a shipping container home. you can buy them prebuilt. stack them like "apartments" or connect multiple for larger units. structurally sound, weather and fire resistant. they look cool. and because of their size the entire house can be built in a shop (no bad weather days holding up a build.) loaded on a truck and unloaded at your site.

Also - April - June are great times to visit the Midwest - weather is reasonable and that is easily the hottest time of the year for our real estate market!

Following this, both the Average Nightly Rate (ANR) and occupancy experience a slowdown until the beginning of February.February - Marked as the high season, February consistently stands out as one of the best months due to favorable weather conditions in Florida and colder climates elsewhere.

You’d have to look all the way to Nevada to have no state income tax, lower property taxes and insurance, no weather related issues and a young property base.