Thanks for the warm welcome guys....

I appreciate the warm welcome, and I'm looking forward to future insight and conversations with the community!

Thanks for the warm welcome @Nicolas Carucci, @Amy Aziz, and @Zachary Caudill.

My goals are to get them warm and to avoid vacancy.

I get the warm and fuzzy provided by having that cash on hand but you are probably paying a lot of money for that scenario. 

For small residential properties it's a warm letter. 

@Dmitriy Fomichenko, Thanks for the tip and the warm welcome!

I am just speaking out of my own personal experience on this subject, but a few things I have learned when dealing with a STR in a cold environment are:Hot tubs are the difference between staying fully booked and dealing with vacancies, never buy used hot tubs because they're junk, rodents will look for ways to live inside of the components area because it is warm all winter, people will 100% have sex in your hot tub and you have to keep up on cleaning and changing water and chemicals, the mountains tend to knock out power and your hot tub can freeze up and crack the pipes, and if there are neighbors nearby then you need to lock the cover or else they will help themselves to sitting in the hot tub. 

or Global warming changing the weather patterns? 

They have been massaging relationships there for years - the mountain folk do not like us city slickers trouncing around on their turf- now that the market is warming up it there are definite barriers for entry.