Real Estate Agent · Ventura, CA · Member since 2026 · 17 posts · 7 votes
Is anyone else seeing an uptick in mid-term rental demand in Vacation Destinations?
Here in Ventura/ Santa Barbara/ Ojai I'm noticing more investors looking at MTRs and, anecdotally, seeing increased demand for furnished housing from professionals on short-term contracts at Naval Base Ventura County, local hospitals, contractors, relocations, and people from LA looking for a month or two away. Curious if others in the Vacation Destinations area are seeing the same thing. What are you seeing in terms of demand of MTR Vrs. STR?
Once the City of Ventura started rolling out their more aggressive STR regulations we've seen an increase in investors looking at what else they can do with their property. Many of them are taking a hard look at MTR and a smaller percentage at LTR.
Once the City of Ventura started rolling out their more aggressive STR regulations we've seen an increase in investors looking at what else they can do with their property. Many of them are taking a hard look at MTR and a smaller percentage at LTR.
That mix (base / hospital / contractor / relocation) is classic mid-term demand. Once the inquiry is not a clean Airbnb reservation, the hard part is usually the stack: real lease, deposit handling, and recurring ACH versus forcing everything through a vacation PMS folio.
Curious what others in regulated vacation markets are using for that middle — especially when STR rules push more inventory into 30+ stays. Happy to compare notes on what we've settled on for lease + deposit + ACH if anyone's wrestling with the same gap.
Are those inquiries coming in for winter dates too, or mostly the same months vacationers already want? We operate furnished rentals in several markets, and that's the detail I'd want before changing the calendar. A month-long stay that fills a quiet stretch solves a different problem from one taking your busiest dates.