re: Rental properties - Sandestin, Seaside, Seagrove, Water color

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If you have a really good property company managing the rental you can make some serious income owning one of these. I’d say the average rental rate including all seasons is around $800 a night. If you can rent it out 80% of the year (269 days) you’d bring in around $20,000 a month in rental income.

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You are also going to have to pay that management company 30%, and then pay taxes, depreciation costs, insurance and/or high HOA fees. You can break even in the right situations, particularly on one bedrooms in OBA, but one bedrooms are not what anyone is looking for in the areas the OP described.

The condos are in the early stages of a decline in prices. I did not think that would happen two months ago, but I was clearly wrong. I suspect there will be at least a 20-25% market correction in the next 18 months. I am almost always in the market, but have no desire to purchase any time soon given the market uncertainty right now and relatively high jumbo rates.