Viability of Cottage on Busy Farm Highway

Cresaya0
Level 1
Oregon, United States

Viability of Cottage on Busy Farm Highway

Hello,
I'm hoping for the opinions of established hosts on whether it would be viable for me to list an existing property. It's a cute 2 bedroom 1 bath cottage. My concern is that it is on a farm highway, and there are times of day where it can be noisy. Farm semis use this route, and sometimes they use Jake breaks. And, though it's a good area, there is some street racing that happens, as well. It's enough that I don't enjoy being in my front yard, and sometimes it interrupts video calls if I'm in the front room. The cottage is walking distance (1/3 of a mile) to a very popular, seasonal drag strip that runs on weekends late spring to early fall (this could provide guests but for non car guests, some weekends they have funny cars and top fuel so it can be heard from the cottage), 5 minutes from an outlet shopping mall that's very popular, 10 minutes from a great state park; 20 minutes from a historic town, and the ocean or mountains are a day trip. The house itself was flipped 4 years ago, so it's in good condition.

I'd love your thoughts. I'm trying to determine if it's worth the investment of furnishing it out, or if I should just make it a long-term regular rental...

 

Thank you in advance!

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Mike-And-Jane0
Top Contributor
England, United Kingdom

@Cresaya0 I don't think anyone can answer your question other to ask if there is an oversupply of rentals in your area? If so people will look for quite places than yours or you will have to drop the price below their rates (which you can see online).

If you do sit then make sure the noise is mentioned in the listing and hope you will attract petrolheads who will be out making the noise!

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