Is Mc Gaheysville a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? The Supply Flood Is the Risk

Jacob Mishalanie
Aug 16
13 min read

Updated: 2 days ago

Aerial view of Massanutten Mountain looking southwest over Rockingham County, Virginia.

Is Mc Gaheysville a good short-term rental investment in 2026 depends on which cell you underwrite and which flood you are willing to live with. The locked AirROI pull dated 2026-08-08 prints advertised daily rate $471, occupancy 39.5 percent, RevPAR $208, typical year $62,240, and median month $5,328 on. The median CLEARS a $4,500 cash conversation, and supply is up 846.7 percent year over year. Revenue is up 271.8 percent, and that pair is the thesis, not a footnote. A buyer who annualizes December without reading the flood is writing fiction with a ski photo attached and calling it diligence.

This page is Jacob’s investment memo for a 1-3 unit buyer looking at a Massanutten-side house in unincorporated Rockingham. It is not a purchase-price guide, and it will not invent a closing number. It is not a DSCR worksheet; the.financingpost carries that file. It is not a Luray investment rewrite and not a Skyline cabin story. Parcel first, product second, calendar third, flood always, and cross-check the.marketextract for the full demand map. Cross-check therulespage before you treat a listing as a permit.

Read the cells as sample facts. Date them. Then stress the year against February, March, and September holes, against a mega-home ops load, against a 55-day lead time, and against a search page that added doors faster than revenue grew. If the deal only works at last December’s ADR forever, the deal does not work.

budget 471, 39.5 percent, $62,240, and $5,328

Start with the dated extract,. ADR $471 is the sample advertised daily rate, not an appraisal and not your house. Occupancy 39.5 percent is a weekend-plus-holiday machine, not a sixty-percent ski town that fills Tuesday. RevPAR $208 is the combined expression of those two. Typical year $62,240 is a constructed annual from the extract’s method. Median month $5,328 is the middle listing’s month and the cash line that CLEARS a $4,500 floor. Use the line you mean. Do not blend them into a single “about sixty thousand” shrug when a lender asks which one you used. Do not swap median and typical year mid-memo.

Peak-season average in the file sits near $8,788 at 50.8 percent occupancy and ADR near $465. Low-season average sits near $5,414 at 38.6 percent occupancy and ADR near $423. A model that runs peak-season as twelve months will overstate the note. A model that treats 39.5 percent as death will understate a house that actually wins December, August, and November. Build a twelve-month calendar with those three peaks and three lows before you talk leverage. Average stay 3.1 nights, December 3.5, January 2.3, lead time 55 days , put them on the same tab as cleaning at a $275 median and $281 average fee pattern charged by 96.5 percent of listings, about 16.7 percent of gross.

Entire-home share is 99.3 percent, and house share is about 88 percent. Rating average sits near 4.9, and guests are 92 percent domestic, Washington then Richmond. Instant Book is 16.2 percent, and exact location is 43.0 percent. Those are demand-quality and market-structure facts, not guarantees. Your underwrite still needs a permit path, a POA path if applicable, and an honest amenity list for mountain-side versus valley-side access. Revenue management fantasy does not fix a parcel that cannot file by December 31, 2026. Superhost share at 70.4 percent is the quality bar you will be measured against after you close.

Cash CLEARS $4,500 , the flood is the thesis

The median month at $5,328 CLEARS a $4,500 cash conversation. That is the good news in one line. One unit at that median can fund a serious marketing and ops discussion. It is not a promise your door will print $5,328 every month. It is not a purchase price. It is not a DSCR green light without debt service, taxes, insurance, POA dues, utilities, and the cleaning turns an eight-guest house actually needs after ski week or Water Park week. It is not permission to ignore September.

The investment thesis that matters more than the CLEARS flag is the flood. Supply is up 846.7 percent year over year. Revenue is up 271.8 percent. Doors entered the sample faster than revenue grew to absorb them. That is why craft, product fit, and calendar honesty sit next to every cash cell on this page. A buyer who treats +271.8 percent revenue as a free pass is ignoring the denominator. A buyer who treats +846.7 percent supply as a reason to never buy may also be wrong if the house, the photos, and the permit can still win share. The flood is the risk you price, not a slogan you paste into a pitch deck and not a reason to invent a fourth peak.

Professionally managed share is only 24.6 percent, and superhost share is 70.4 percent. Independents still operate most doors. Concentration exists , Jeremy 14, Bri 9, Chris 6, Evolve 3 , but multi-door books are not your single-unit year. Bri’s about $1,280,891 and Chris’s about $784,819 are their books across multiple doors. Your memo starts at $5,328 and $62,240. Stress both under more supply next year than last year. Stress both under a 39.5 percent occupancy machine that empties in three named months.

Parcel test before the rent roll

Underwrite the desk before the ADR. Unincorporated Rockingham County is not the independent City of Harrisonburg and not the seven incorporated towns , Bridgewater, Broadway, Dayton, Elkton, Grottoes, Mount Crawford, Timberville. County ordinance does not apply inside those towns. A Mc Gaheysville / Massanutten published market year on US-33 is usually the county desk, but the tax map decides, not the marketing title and not the resort name on the towel. If the parcel is city, stop and use the city path. If the parcel is in a town, stop and use the town path. An Elkton grocery run does not change the desk. A Harrisonburg dinner does not change the desk.

Rockingham’s annual administrative permit path requires a valid permit by December 31, 2026 for hosts tracking this draft. Reconfirm forms, fees, and intake, and hedge the application fee. Contact language has included Kendrick Smith at and , with Community Development at. STR means fewer than thirty consecutive days. Occupancy formulas hosts must reconfirm run two per bedroom plus four on sewer and two per bedroom on septic. Responsible agent eighteen-plus with a thirty-minute / two-hour window. Permit not transferable. TOT is five percent of gross on lodging thirty consecutive days or less, quarterly, Commissioner of the Revenue, 20 East Gay Main Street, Reconfirm the form the week you underwrite.

MPOA and Woodstone packets can add rules, and screenshot them. Leave out unverified a rental cap, and association paper does not replace the county permit. AirROI Low is not the ordinance. A pretty pro forma on the wrong desk is still the wrong desk. Put permit timeline and POA registration, if any, in the same memo as the December ski week so you do not close into a peak you cannot legally host.rulespost is the full clerk map. This section is the investment gate.

8-plus at 82.4 percent is the product

Eight-plus guest capacity is 82.4 percent of the sample. Five-plus bedrooms are 50 percent, and three-plus bedrooms are 88.7 percent. Entire-home share is 99.3 percent. The product this market sells is the mega-home, not a two-bed cabin exception. A two-bed can exist. It is not the center of the comps set. Underwrite cleaning labor, parking, wear, linen, and quiet-hour risk for eight or more if that is what you are buying. Underwrite a different, thinner demand set if you are buying a small unit and hoping to ride mega-home ADR without mega-home capacity. Guests compare great rooms, and lenders should too.

Ops load scales with the product. Average stay 3.1 nights means frequent turns when occupancy clusters in peak months. Cleaning fees in the sample sit near $275 median and $281 average, charged by 96.5 percent of listings, about 16.7 percent of gross. That is guest-facing fee behavior, not your contract with a cleaner, but it shows what the market already normalizes on the quote. Budget owner-side turns, linen, and consumables for group houses. Budget a local agent if you cannot hit the response window from Washington or Richmond. Budget a February reserve when the house that sleeps ten still sits empty.

Do not buy a two-bed and paste eight-guest amenity language into the listing. Do not buy an eight-guest house and underwrite couple’s-cabin utilities and couple’s-cabin cleaning. Match the asset to the 82.4 percent product map or consciously underwrite the exception with lower revenue expectations and different marketing. Superhost and Guest Favorite shares at 70.4 percent mean the guest will not forgive a product mismatch in the review that follows peak.

48.6 percent already on 30-plus is a different underwrite

Thirty-plus-night minimums sit on 48.6 percent of the sample. Two-night minimums sit on 40.8 percent. Those are two products sharing one search page. A weekend ski and Water Park machine is not the same underwrite as a remote-month or long-stay machine. Tax and definition lines care about stays under thirty consecutive days on the county path; longer stays need a written answer from the Commissioner’s office before you model them as the same lodging class. ADR $471 on a two-night ski turn is not the same cash shape as a discounted month that fills February.

If your business plan needs Saturday-to-Sunday ski turns, study the 3.1-night stay and the 40.8 percent two-night share. If your business plan needs February filled with a desk and a closed door, study the 48.6 percent thirty-plus share and build a different photo and copy set. Mixing both without a strategy produces empty shoulder weeks and confused reviews. Instant Book at 16.2 percent and exact location at 43.0 percent still matter for both products. Lead time at 55 days still applies. Long-stay guests also plan early. The remote post later in the cluster is the desk product. This page only needs the split on the investment tab next to the flood.

Treat the two products as separate figures rather than averaging them into one occupancy story, or the year will miss. Do not tell a lender the market is 39.5 percent occupied as if every night were the same product. Name which product you will run. Price the holes honestly. Keep the county definition in the same cell as the minimum stay.

February, March, and September are vacant-risk months

Peak-three is December, August, and November, and lows are February, March, and September. September is the lowest month in the extract. A buyer who models twelve Decembers will default in March on paper even if December was fine. Build cash reserves for three soft months, not for a theoretical average month only. Peak-season average near $8,788 and low-season average near $5,414 are the bands the sample already printed. Use them as stress rails until your own trailing twelve exists. Occupancy at 39.5 percent annual is compatible with busy peaks and quiet holes; it is not a promise of smooth months.

Personal use in peak weeks is an owner choice with a revenue cost. Personal use in shoulder weeks is a different cost. Keep the owner-use calendar before you Keep the debt calendar. Eight-guest houses attract multi-family owner use that can wipe a December week you needed for the note. That is not a moral failure. It is a model input. Put it in the memo next to the CLEARS median so you do not spend the median twice.

Weather-dependent ski windows and summer park calendars move, and reconfirm massresort.com the season you operate. Leave out unverified lift-ticket prices or park dollars as revenue add-ons the guest may not pay through you. Hedge amenity access for nightly guests versus owners. A pro forma that assumes every booking includes full resort ID access is a complaint and a refund waiting for peak. Mountain-side versus valley-side pins change what a guest can walk to. Keep the access into the investment memo the same way you Keep it into the listing.

Evolve at three is not an institutional bid

Evolve shows three listings in the concentration cell, and jeremy shows fourteen. Bri shows nine, and chris shows six. That field is multi-door competition, not a take-private event and not a purchase-price ceiling. Three Evolve doors do not mean independents cannot clear Superhost bars at 70.4 percent. Fourteen doors under one name do not mean the median month is unavailable to a careful 1-3 unit owner. Do not scare yourself with brand logos. Do scare yourself with +846.7 percent supply if your plan was to be the only new mega-home on the ridge with average photos and a soft published market year.

Purchase price is not in this memo because this draft will not invent one. Comps, insurance, interest rates, and POA dues belong in a local broker and lender file dated the week you offer. Bring the AirROI cells, the permit timeline, the product mix, and the flood pair to that meeting. Do not bring a city visitor-spend figure and call it host revenue. Visitor dollars are not host dollars. Never pair a tourism-spend headline with $62,240 or $5,328 as if they were the same account. Never pair a county tourism reprint with $471 ADR and call it proof the note clears.

If the deal only works at last December’s ADR forever, the deal does not work. If the deal works at low-season bands with a reserve and still clears your debt test, you have a conversation. If the parcel cannot permit by December 31, 2026, walk. If the association blocks your plan, walk. If the house is a two-bed priced like an eight-guest, walk or reprice the dream. If the gallery plan is generic cabin stock, fix craft before you leverage the flood.

What this page is not

This page is not thefinancingworksheet. DSCR versus second-home structure lives there with the same occupancy and flood cells. This page is not themarketreport in full, though it uses the same 2026-08-08 lock. This page is not therulesfiling guide in full, though the parcel test is mandatory before cash. This page is not a Luray investment memo and not a Skyline cabin story. It will not invent a purchase price, a POA cap, a lift-ticket dollar, or a Friday Maps minute.

Frequently Asked Questions

What numbers should a buyer underwrite first?

From the 2026-08-08 AirROI pull for Mc Gaheysville: ADR $471, occupancy 39.5 percent, RevPAR $208, typical year $62,240, median month $5,328,. Say which line you mean in the memo. Leave out unverified a purchase price from those cells, and do not annualize December as if it were the year. The locked AirROI pull dated 2026-08-08 prints advertised daily rate $471, occupancy 39.5 percent, RevPAR $208, typical year $62,240, and median month $5,328 on.

Does the median month clear a cash floor?

$5,328 CLEARS a $4,500 conversation as a sample median, not a guarantee for your door every month. Stress it against debt service, taxes, insurance, POA dues, utilities, and eight-guest turns before you call it investable. Keep a reserve for February, March, and September holes. It is not a DSCR green light without debt service, taxes, insurance, POA dues, utilities, and the cleaning turns an eight-guest house actually needs after ski week or Water Park week.

What is the main investment risk in this file?

Supply is up 846.7 percent year over year while revenue is up 271.8 percent. Doors entered faster than revenue grew. That flood is the thesis risk. Craft, product fit, and calendar honesty sit next to every cash cell so you do not treat the CLEARS median as a free pass..

Why does parcel jurisdiction come before ADR?

Unincorporated Rockingham is not Harrisonburg city and not the seven towns. County ordinance does not apply inside those towns. The annual administrative permit by December 31, 2026, TOT, and responsible-agent rules only apply if the tax map says they do. Wrong desk means wrong deal no matter the ADR. Unincorporated Rockingham County is not the independent City of Harrisonburg and not the seven incorporated towns , Bridgewater, Broadway, Dayton, Elkton, Grottoes, Mount Crawford, Timberville.

What product should a buyer assume?

Eight-plus guest capacity is 82.4 percent of the sample. Five-plus bedrooms are 50 percent. Entire-home share is 99.3 percent. The center of comps is the mega-home, not a two-bed cabin. A two-bed is the exception and needs a different underwrite, different marketing, and different ops load. Match the asset to the 82.4 percent product map or consciously underwrite the exception with lower revenue expectations and different marketing.

How should buyers treat thirty-plus-night listings?

48.6 percent of the sample already shows a thirty-plus-night minimum. That is a different product from the 40.8 percent on two-night minimums. Tax and definition lines change across the thirty-day boundary on the county path. Model the product you will actually run, not an average of both. Tax and definition lines care about stays under thirty consecutive days on the county path; longer stays need a written answer from the Commissioner’s office before you model them as the same lodging class.

Which months are vacant-risk?

February, March, and September are the lows, and september is the lowest month in the extract. Peak-three is December, August, and November. Reserve cash for soft months and do not annualize December. Peak-season averages near $8,788 and low-season averages near $5,414 are the bands to stress. Build cash reserves for three soft months, not for a theoretical average month only.

Does Evolve’s presence mean independents cannot win?

Evolve shows three listings in the concentration cell, and professionally managed share is only 24.6 percent. Superhost share is 70.4 percent. Multi-door books are competition, not a purchase-price ceiling and not proof the $5,328 median is unavailable to a careful 1-3 unit owner with craft. Three Evolve doors do not mean independents cannot clear Superhost bars at 70.4 percent.

What this page is not?

This page is Jacob’s investment memo for a 1-3 unit buyer looking at a Massanutten-side house in unincorporated Rockingham. This page is not a Luray investment memo and not a Skyline cabin story. It is not a Luray investment rewrite and not a Skyline cabin story. This page only needs the split on the investment tab next to the flood.

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