thanks @Marc WinterIt would be LTV <75 if accepted so I've been told I could I could rate and term refinance without seasoning

Could perhaps combine with my current cash  and let it season.

The hot winter rental season is only a few months away, I would love to have a place before then, but would I be paying a premium pre-skiing season?

Please read my buy and hold help paper linked off my profile 1st paragraph,; how to buy a bullet proof rental portfolio.

Either way, I was a little worried about Boone as a STR market thinking it would be too seasonal. 

How do I get a big picture view including seasonality for occupancy rate in an area, is AirDNA the best it gets?

Feel free to reach out if you think you'd want to go that route, especially if you want a near 0% risk by originating your own loans to very well seasoned investors with over 150 to 200 deals a YEAR under their belts for over 10 years!

I say this because if you are building in a vacation area / seasonal area etc... it will be people who have secondary homes and this pool of buyers is but a fraction of those with primary residences. 

And as far as the kids, this is the easiest season in which to do something like this, while they are still young.

Should we just bite the bullet and put a refrigerator in the unit and not have her pay us back (and it would remain in the home when she moves out).