Updated almost 4 years ago on . Most recent reply
Airbnb on Cape Cod, MA
Most Popular Reply
@Kellen Driscoll Not the best plan. The demand for STRs is in the summer. Think June 1 to Labor day, or roughly 4 months.
Those who own them struggle to find people to rent for the late fall through mid spring, or as we call it, a "winter rental". As a very rough guideline, the monthly cost for a winter rental is about the same as a week in the summer.
You can certainly do what you propose, but taking a whole month for yourself in the summer is eating into a big chunk of your profits. That's one month out of four gone.
The Cape starts to roll up the sidewalks after Labor Day, but September is a great time to be there. Still warm enough to walk the beaches, many shops are still open and the traffic on routes 6 and 28 is far less than it is in the summer, when they're clogged with NY and NJ license plates.