Turnkey Team Blog
One of the biggest mindset shifts in short-term rental investing is realizing that your properties don’t have to live in silos.
Sometimes, the smartest move isn’t squeezing a little more cash flow out of one house — it’s leveraging one asset to dramatically improve another.
That’s exactly what we did.
Which months are actually busy in Blue Ridge? What does seasonality really look like for short-term rentals in the North Georgia mountains? These are some of the most common questions we get from investors, and the honest answer is that seasonality here is real — but it’s not as simple as “summer is busy and winter is dead.”
Turnkey’ is one of the most misunderstood words in short-term rental real estate. In North Georgia, most turnkey cabins are simply furnished — not truly launch-ready STR businesses. Here’s what turnkey actually means for investors, and why you either pay for it in price or pay for it in time.
If you’re looking at investing in a short-term rental in Blue Ridge, the first question almost everyone asks is: “What are the numbers?”
It’s a smart question.
But it’s not the only one that matters — and it’s rarely the one that determines whether we move forward on a property.
Over the years, both personally and with clients, we’ve learned something important:
Rental history tells you what someone else did with the property.
It doesn’t tell you what you can do with it.