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🛖🦌 Sunday News Edition | Intriguing Pocono STR Opportunity | February 16
Opportunity, Pricing, Events, and Regulation Updates
Jonathan Dempsey
February 16, 2025
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🗓 Week of February 16
Brand-new A-frame home in the heart of Lake Naomi! This stunning 3-bedroom, 2-bath home features an open floor plan with high-end custom finishes. A true one-of-a-kind gem! Plus, it comes with a full 1-year builder’s warranty. Don’t miss out—schedule a tour today!
Outlook on Potential from the Author
Lets look at the science first and then the assessment overall.
Property Archetype: As a 3 bedroom with an architecturally pleasing A-Frame design, this home falls into a weird space in the market. The market is severely overserved for 3BR homes, so the mix with the A-Frame is interesting.
Winning Features: This stunning A-Frame was designed with the guest experience in mind. Wall to Wall windows, high ceilings, wood finish, spacious hangout areas, top of the line kitchen and bathroom finishes, and location in check. Weird they didn’t go metal roof.
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Market Snapshot - 3 Weeks of Pricing Outlook 📊
Use the below metrics to determine whether or not you should be booked
This Week’s Occupancy (1-7 days out) - Weekday 24% - Weekends 69%
Next Week’s Occupancy (8-14 days out) - Weekday 7% - Weekend 48%
Two Week’s Occupancy (15-21 days out) - Weekday 6% - Weekend 26%
This week we have high occupancy so if you aren’t already booked, snag some bookings!
Next week be more aggressive on weekdays but stay pretty high on weekends as it will fill in.
Two weeks out aggressive weekdays and weekend should fill nicely so hold rates!
📍 Eagle Watch Bus Tour – [Date]
🎟 Details: Hosted By: Delaware Highlands Conservancy -
📍 The Downstrokes Rock n’ Roll – Saturday February 22, 2025, 8pm - 10:00 pm - Sherman Theater East Stroudsburg
🎟 Details: The Downstrokes play four-on-the-floor rock n roll. On their debut album, New York Girl, they explored their influences from the Kinks and the Patti Smith Group to the Adolescents and the Pixies. On their 2019 E.P from Snubbed Records, they dared listeners to Fall in Love with Punk Rock Again. Post Covid saw the band return unsafe at Any Speed, which was named one of The Big Takeover Magazine's 50 best records of 2021. Their latest record, This Close to Vertigo, is ten songs of rip-roaring out of the garage rock n roll.
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📍 Snowmen of Stroudsburg – Until February 24th - All over Stroudsburg
🎟 Details: Camelback Resort and GO Collaborative join forces for the Snowmen of Stroudsburg! Until February 24th, five Snowmen grace our property, celebrating Camelback’s 60th Ski Season alongside Snowmen Stroudsburg’s sixth anniversary. Discover 40+ more Snowmen in downtown Stroudsburg; check the map here. Find all 5 at Camelback, or catch a shuttle to these locations. While exploring, don’t miss a cozy drink at La Colombe near Sapphire Snow Fairy. Enjoy the unique charm each snowmen brings!
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Vendor Spotlight 🔧🏠
🛋 Lab Creates Design – Short Term Rental Interior Design
📍 Location: Blakeslee, PA (or where needed)
⭐ Why We Recommend: We love using Lab Creates Design due to their high level experience with Short Term Rentals. They’ve done dozens of projects for us, know how to design for peak revenue performance, look and durability.
📞 Contact Info: www.labcreatesdesign.com
Hosting & Investment Tip of the Week 💡
Invest in Quality Bedding & Towels 🛏️
Guests notice comfortable mattresses and plush towels. Invest in hotel-quality linens (400+ thread count) and 100% cotton towels to enhance their experience and earn great reviews.
STR Regulation Update ⚖️ (If applicable this week)
📢 Recent Change in Poconos STR Laws
Summary: There were some big changes to fee structures recently at two prominent HOAs.
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Impact on Hosts: See Full Details with Premium (Try 1 month for only $1 here)
JD is a Pocono local and investor with a tremendous passion for short term rentals and travel
JD owns multiple short term rental investments across the Poconos with homes spanning in sizes and locations. JD has a passion for finding, creating, and sharing the Poconos coolest rental properties
JD has been a short term rental host of over 39,750 reservations, starting 6 years ago with the first guest in a shared room in his townhome, to now guest’s favorites and the top performing homes across the Poconos
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📢 Stay ahead in the Poconos STR market – see you next week! 🚀