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What $750K Gets You in Arizona, Colorado vs. Maine

September 3, 2026 · Landian Weekly Deals

This week's budget is $750,000, and it buys four completely different vacation-rental strategies in four corners of the country. In West Sedona, it's an authentic hand-hewn log cabin with a hot tub aimed at Thunder Mountain, minutes from the Devil's Bridge trailhead. In the Colorado mountains, it's a custom chalet at the end of a private road that backs straight into National Forest — hot springs down the hill, Wolf Creek snow up the pass. On the Maine coast, it's a renovated 1940 cottage in classic Yankee blue, a short walk from seven miles of sand. And the fourth — the sleeper that out-earns them all on paper — is a sleeps-21 income machine two blocks off the Atlantic in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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 · Sedona, Arizona

A hand-hewn log cabin in red-rock country

Price

$724,900

Home

3 bd · 2 ba · 1,592 sqft

Est. revenue*

$59,221/yr ($295/night · 55% occ.)

Gross yield*

8.2%

An authentic hand-hewn log cabin in West Sedona — the kind of texture Sedona guests pay a premium for, minutes from the Devil's Bridge and Old Post trailheads with a hot tub that looks straight at Thunder Mountain. Three decks (covered, open-air, and an upper view deck), a juniper-shaded backyard, and Amish hemlock cabinets in the kitchen. Arizona state law blocks cities from banning short-term rentals; Sedona just requires a $210/yr permit and a TPT license, and the listing itself calls out the ability to short-term rent. AirDNA puts Sedona around a $334 nightly rate at 57% occupancy across 3,500+ listings; a 3-bed cabin books below that market-wide average, so we've modeled $295 a night at 55% — roughly $59,000 a year on a $724,900 log cabin in one of the most search-heavy STR markets in America.

Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $13,124 back on this one.

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Deal 2 · Pagosa Springs, Colorado

A chalet with National Forest as the back fence

Price

$795,000

Home

3 bd · 2 ba · 2,478 sqft

Est. revenue*

$48,362/yr ($265/night · 50% occ.)

Gross yield*

6.1%

A custom log-and-stucco chalet at the end of a private road that backs directly to National Forest — sunset views, wraparound deck, two fireplaces, slate-and-wood floors, and a chef's kitchen with double convection ovens, all refreshed in 2024 (new paint, stain, and chinking). The location is the STR story: guests get trailheads out the back door, the world's deepest hot springs 10 minutes away in town, and Wolf Creek's 400+ inches of annual snow up the pass — a genuine four-season booking calendar. Most Pagosa rentals sit outside town limits under Archuleta County's straightforward vacation-rental permit, no cap, no lottery. AirDNA has Pagosa Springs at a $263 average nightly rate and 49% occupancy; we've modeled this 3-bed at $265 and 50% — about $48,000 a year against a $795,000 mountain compound.

Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $14,876 back on this one.

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Deal 3 · Old Orchard Beach, Maine

A 1940 cottage a short walk from seven miles of sand

Price

$799,000

Home

4 bd · 2 ba · 1,729 sqft

Est. revenue*

$68,255/yr ($340/night · 55% occ.)

Gross yield*

8.5%

A 1940 gambrel cottage in classic Maine blue, renovated where it counts — quartz-counter kitchen, new windows, new roof — with an enclosed front porch, a side porch over the landscaped yard, a privacy fence, and off-street parking. It sits on a quiet street a short walk from seven miles of sand, the pier, and the amusement park that make Old Orchard Beach northern New England's beach town. The town runs a simple STR licensing regime (bi-annual registration, 9% lodging tax) rather than a ban, and the market posts some of the strongest occupancy in this issue: AirDNA shows roughly a $376 nightly rate at 63% occupancy in season. The season is the catch — summer does the earning — so we've modeled $340 a night at 55% annualized: about $68,000 a year from a four-bed that sleeps a whole reunion.

Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $14,976 back on this one.

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Deal 4 · North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

The sleeps-21 income machine (this week's surprise)

Price

$775,000

Home

5 bd · 4.5 ba · 1,808 sqft

Est. revenue*

$65,700/yr ($400/night · 45% occ.)

Gross yield*

8.5%

The listing leads with 'top income producing' — a 5-bed, 4.5-bath house that sleeps up to 21, with a top-of-the-line in-ground pool and custom gazebo out back, new furniture and paint throughout, and the ocean a short walk or golf-cart ride away. Big-group beach houses are the workhorses of the Grand Strand rental economy, and North Myrtle Beach is one of the most operator-friendly beach towns on the East Coast — business license, occupancy limits, no zoning lottery. Market trackers put North Myrtle Beach near a $361 average nightly rate (36% occupancy, skewed by a supply wave of small condos); a sleeps-21 pool home books harder than that average, so we've modeled $400 a night at 45% — about $66,000 a year, with the pool and headcount doing the heavy lifting.

Buying it through Landian costs a $4,999 flat fee instead of a ~2.5% commission — about $14,376 back on this one.

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*Every revenue, occupancy, and yield figure on this page is an estimate based on market-level short-term-rental data and our own assumptions — not a promise of performance. Listings verified active as of publication and can go under contract at any time. Landian is a licensed real-estate brokerage; this is not investment advice.