What $550K Gets You in Wisconsin, Maryland vs. Utah
September 17, 2026 · Landian Weekly Deals
This week's budget is $550,000, and the four answers stretch from a Wisconsin waterpark town to a Utah ski summit. In Wisconsin Dells, it buys the newest house of the four — a just-finished build in the Spring Brook golf community, with the resort's own rental program ready to run it for you. On Maryland's Deep Creek Lake, it's 'Sunrise Cove', an established 4-suite vacation rental a short walk from Wisp Resort's chairlift that sells furnished with its future bookings disclosed. In Brian Head, Utah, it's a 2022 modern cabin at nearly 10,000 feet, next to the resort and already earning. And the fourth — in a state the title doesn't name — is the cheapest deal in the issue and isn't one rental at all: it's three, a duplex plus a cabin on four acres in the heart of one of the East's great climbing destinations.
Each listing was verified active as of this issue, each is on Landian so you can tour or offer with a $4,999 flat fee instead of a commission, and every number below is an estimate — the disclaimer at the bottom applies to all of it.
Deal 1 · Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
The hands-off play in the waterpark capital
Price
$575,000
Home
3 bd · 3 ba · 1,900 sqft
Est. revenue*
$52,560/yr ($300/night · 48% occ.)
Gross yield*
9.1%
The newest house in this issue: brand-new construction in Spring Brook, the golf-and-pool resort community minutes from downtown Wisconsin Dells — the self-proclaimed (and box-office-verified) waterpark capital of the world. Quartz counters, a statement fireplace, covered patio with a private firepit, and a three-car garage, with the community's own on-site vacation-rental program available for hands-off hosting. AirDNA has the Dells at a $329 average rate and 43% occupancy, with revenue still climbing as supply grows; we've modeled this 3-bed conservatively at $300 a night and 48% — about $53,000 a year. Wisconsin's Right-to-Rent law protects short-term renting statewide, and the state license is $110 a year.
Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $9,376 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Deal 2 · Deep Creek Lake, Maryland
A lake cottage that comes with its booking calendar
Price
$599,000
Home
4 bd · 4 ba · 2,784 sqft
Est. revenue*
$78,475/yr ($430/night · 50% occ.)
Gross yield*
13.1%
An established, named vacation rental — 'Sunrise Cove' — within walking distance of Wisp Resort's Chair 5, with filtered views over Deep Creek Lake. Renovated and expanded so there's a bedroom and full bath on every level (four suites, sleeps 12), with a stone fireplace, vaulted wood ceilings, and an elevated hot tub on the rear deck. It conveys furnished, and the book of future bookings is disclosed with the sale — you're buying the calendar, not just the cottage. AirDNA puts Deep Creek Lake at a $476 average nightly rate, 47% occupancy, and about $80,000 average annual revenue; we've modeled this walk-to-the-lift 4-bed at $430 and 50% — about $78,000 a year, the biggest modeled number in the issue. Garrett County's TVRU license is a straightforward two-year permit at this bedroom count.
Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $9,976 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Deal 3 · Brian Head, Utah
Turnkey at 10,000 feet, next to the lifts
Price
$565,000
Home
2 bd · 2 ba · 960 sqft
Est. revenue*
$40,150/yr ($250/night · 44% occ.)
Gross yield*
7.1%
A 2022-built modern cabin next to Brian Head Resort, at nearly 10,000 feet in southern Utah's alpine red-rock country — Utah's highest town, with Cedar Breaks National Monument minutes up the road. Both bedrooms are private queen ensuites with twin trundles, and it sells fully furnished and already operating as a top-performing short-term rental: deck gas fireplace, gigabit fiber, city utilities, paved and plowed access, free ski shuttle nearby — no HOA, no CC&Rs, and STR-approved zoning. AirDNA has the Brian Head market at a $293 average rate and 37% occupancy across ~774 listings; we've modeled this 2-bed at $250 and 44% — about $40,000 a year from 960 square feet of mountaintop.
Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $9,126 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Deal 4 · Red River Gorge, Kentucky
The surprise: three rentals wearing one price tag
Price
$549,900
Home
5 bd · 4 ba · 3,000 sqft
Est. revenue*
$74,022/yr ($390/night · 52% occ.)
Gross yield*
13.5%
Three rentable units on one deed: a duplex plus a standalone cabin on roughly four acres with two ponds, minutes from the Red River Gorge trailheads, Sky Bridge Station, and the Rogers exit off the Mountain Parkway. This was one of the first short-term rentals in the Gorge — owner-run for 20 years, with a guest game room and mature landscaping — and it comes as a proven, turnkey operation. AirDNA tracks roughly 695 Gorge listings at a $214 average nightly rate and 57% occupancy, about $44,000 a year each; we've modeled the three units combined at a blended $390 a night and 52% — about $74,000 a year, comfortably under what three market-average listings earn. Rural Wolfe County adds no STR-specific zoning restrictions, and the climbing-and-hiking calendar keeps the season long.
Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $8,748 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Four answers to one budget: the Dells build is the hands-off play — new construction, resort amenities, and an on-site rental program in a market where demand keeps outrunning new supply. Sunrise Cove is the buy-the-business play, walking distance to a chairlift with the booking calendar included and the biggest modeled revenue of the four. Brian Head is the lowest-friction mountain entry — furnished, fiber, no HOA, snow already booked for you. And the Red River Gorge surprise is the operator's pick: three doors, two ponds, and twenty years of history at the lowest price in the issue. Whichever answer fits, buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — $8,748 to $9,976 back on these four.
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