Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026?

Can you invest in a Six Mile Lake Keowee short-term rental? Only if your definition of invest includes the locked extract and the year-over-year decline, not an August screenshot. AirROI’s 2026-08-08 file puts the typical year at $44,801, do not round that town figure to $45,000, the median month at $3,578, flagged WATCH cash, occupancy at 35.8 percent, advertised daily rate at $440, and RevPAR at $159. Revenue is down 11.9 percent year over year, and supply is up 21.4 percent. Peak-three are August, June, and May, and lows are January, February, and December. One unit at those town figures is a hard sell as a stand-alone note.

This page is the investor memo the other five posts were not. It is not a buy recommendation. It will not guess a purchase price, a cap rate, an LTV, or a DSCR threshold.financingpost is the note conversation without those guessed lines.rulespost is the parcel test. Themarket reportis the extract in full, and revenue does not repeal a boundary. A registration does not guess an August. If you needed one annual number to feel brave, stop here and open the dated file yourself.

The risk stack on this house is jurisdiction, dock rights, product class, PM concentration, seasonality, supply growth against revenue decline, and stay length. Miss one and the median is no longer the median you thought you bought. Do not underwrite Greenville downtown, and do not underwrite Salem SC at $22,012. Do not underwrite Sunset SC at $26,405, and do not lead with Hartwell. This page underwrites the Six Mile east-shore town figure. It does not underwrite the lake as a single stock. This is not legal advice.

Budget 44,801 and minus 11.9 percent, not August alone

The locked extract’s typical year is $44,801. The median month is $3,578, and that town figure is WATCH cash. Those two lines are not interchangeable, and median is the middle listing’s month. Typical year is a constructed annual, and use the one you mean. Peak-season average sits near $7,610 at 49.2 percent occupancy. Low-season average sits near $2,796 at 27.0 percent, and august is the peak town figure. August is not the year. Do not send anyone the August line as if it were the mean. Do not round $44,801 to $45,000 to make a deck look cleaner.

Revenue is down 11.9 percent year over year while supply is up 21.4 percent. That pair is the caution in the lede for a reason. A lender, a partner, or a future you who annualizes August will overstate the file. A lender who treats 35.8 percent as a dead market will understate it. The honest underwrite is the median month, twelve times, then a haircut for the three low months, then a second case only if the house, the photos, the dock rights, and the registration can defend a higher band. Do not send them $3,578 as a reason to walk without looking at the published market year. Do not send them peak season as year one unless the house already lives there.

This cluster will not turn $44,801 into a mortgage payment. Purchase prices, cap rates, LTV, and DSCR thresholds are not in the public record we are using, and we will not guess them. Bring the dated extract, your own trailing twelve if you have one, and the Pickens or town paper. The financing post is how those files sit next to a second-home conversation. This page only needs the revenue town figure you are allowed to quote. If the town figure is $44,801 with a minus 11.9 percent year-over-year, Keep both. If your own trailing twelve is different, Keep that and date it.

WATCH cash at $3,578 is the monthly town figure

WATCH cash means the middle month is thin for a note that assumes fat months. $3,578 is not a rounding error on a lake fantasy. It is the town figure you stress before you talk about August. Cleaning is already 13.9 percent of gross, median fee $176, average $254. Platform fees still sit on the folio. Pickens local accommodation remittance still sits on the 20th with a 5 percent late penalty on materials this cluster read, hedge the local percent, Leave out unverified 2 percent or 3 percent. SCDOR 5 percent sales and 2 percent state accommodations still sit as a separate desk. Twenty percent management, if you hire it, is a question on this median, not a free layer.

Peak-season average near $7,610 is real and still not the year. Low-season average near $2,796 is real and still not a reason to ignore the lake or to guess a ski season. Staff the peaks, and budget the floors, and january, February, and December are named lows. A cash plan that assumes flat months is fiction, which is why this page will not guess a DSCR threshold. Show the six named months. Show your own trailing twelve if you have one. A flat twelve-town figure model is how August gets annualized and January gets ignored until the note is already closed.

Professionally managed share is 19.1 percent CLEAR, and that means independents still dominate. It does not mean a one-unit buyer can ignore Evolve’s four doors, Clemson Vacation Rentals’ three, or Oconee Hospitality’s three. Those books are concentration facts, and they are not your closing binder. Do not annualize a multi-door book and call it your year-one case. Do not annualize waterfront class revenue and call it a hillside published market year. The monthly town figure that does not care which logo you admired is still $3,578 cash, and the year is still $44,801 with a minus 11.9 percent tag.

Parcel, HOA, and Duke before the rent roll

Guests say Six Mile and Lake Keowee. The clerk says unincorporated Pickens, the Town of Six Mile, or west-shore Oconee. Those are not the same stamp. Open the tax map before you model a night. Pickens registration and remittance run through the county platform in use as of July 1, 2024 at pickenscountysc-self.govplatform.com, due the 20th, 5 percent late penalty on materials this cluster read, pcstr@pickenscountysc.gov. Hedge the local fee percent. Town business license at 106 S Main,, only if the parcel is in town, May 1 to April 30 on materials this cluster read, hedge that calendar. Oconee’s 3 percent and 1.5 percent lines are west shore only. AirROI Low is a vendor label, not the ordinance.

Private slips require Duke Energy Keowee-Toxaway Shoreline Management Plan approval under FERC, hedge application fees, slip length, and depth, screenshot the week of draft. HOA, Reserve, and Cliffs documents can ban or cap short-term rentals, screenshot the covenants, Leave out unverified a rule. Keowee is not USACE, and hartwell is USACE. A pretty house on the wrong desk is not a Six Mile thesis. It is a different file you have not opened. Confirm the parcel before you model a night, and confirm the dock before you model waterfront. Confirm the association before you model any night at all.

Real estate assessment in Pickens has carried a 4 percent primary versus 6 percent other conversation in Auditor FAQ materials, confirm with the Assessor, Leave out unverified the bill. That line is not accommodations tax. Stack assessment, local A-tax, and SCDOR as separate lines. A short-term investment thesis that assumes primary-residence assessment is already broken. Ask the Assessor, and date the answer, and the rules post is the full walkthrough. This page only needs the go/no-go: map, association, Duke, then rent roll.

Product class: waterfront plus 234.2 percent is not your promise

Waterfront amenity in the extract prints about $62,972 typical year against about $18,842 without it, a plus 234.2 percent product-class gap. That is a class fact, not a purchase memo for your parcel. A hillside title that says Lake Keowee does not inherit the waterfront town figure. A photo of water does not create a Duke slip. Underwrite the class you can operate, and entire-home share is 95.6 percent. Three-plus bedrooms are 64.8 percent, and eight-plus capacity is 50 percent WATCH. Average stay is 4.1 nights, and two-night minimums sit on 26.5 percent. Thirty-plus-night minimums sit on 52.9 percent.

The product this shore already makes is a domestic lake stay, 97.7 percent domestic, Charleston then Greenville, lead time 82 days, Instant Book only 13.2 percent. A studio thesis is a different file, and a Greenville loft thesis is a different city. A Hartwell thesis is a different lake. Cleaning at 13.9 percent of gross rises with guest count. Eight guests raise the turn. They do not raise the median unless your own folio says so. Do not buy bunks to chase the WATCH flag. Do not buy a dockless house and paste waterfront into the title.

Mile Creek Park at 757 Keowee Baptist Church Road is public access, not a private amenity you can capitalize into a sale price. Keowee-Toxaway State Park canoe access is not a deep-water trailer ramp. Table Rock is a day trip, and none of those parks are your revenue town figure. Confirm hours and fees the week a guest arrives. Leave out unverified visitation. Leave out unverified a park cabin as an STR comp. A product class that needs Falls Park, Liberty Bridge, or Greenville Main Street is not this town. Keep the house you can register and turn, and then decide if $3,578 still works.

Do not underwrite Greenville, Salem SC, or Hartwell

Nearby town figures that dump Hartwell, Anderson, Pendleton, Greenwood, or Oconee State Park into this file are town figures you ignore. Do not transfer those medians into a rent roll. Do not transfer a Greenville downtown ADR onto a dock house. Do not transfer Salem SC’s $22,012 or Sunset SC’s $26,405 into a Six Mile pro forma. Those are different search pages, different clerks, and different guest intents. A pitch deck that averages them is teaching a lender a number nobody published for this east-shore town figure. Cite the dated Six Mile pull you opened, or do not cite a pull.

Evolve’s 4 doors, Clemson Vacation Rentals’ 3 doors, and Oconee Hospitality’s 3 doors are concentration facts inside. They are not your closing binder. Do not annualize a multi-door book and call it the town average. Do not annualize a west-shore Oconee book and call it east-shore Pickens. The town average in this file is $3,578 a month, WATCH cash. Independent entire-homes still make up most of the sample at 19.1 percent professionally managed CLEAR. Superhost share is 75.0 percent. You can enter as a house. You enter next to books you do not own, and you enter next to a year-over-year decline you do own as a risk.

A desk that towns Greenville Main Street from a Six Mile door is not a comparable. It is a warning. The property-manager post already named that flag. This page only needs the investment implication: do not underwrite the desk’s other city. Underwrite this sample, this house’s trailing twelve if it has one, and this parcel’s clerk. A Greenville comp will make $3,578 look like a bargain or a mistake. It is neither until the published market year is this published market year and the trailing twelve is this house. Hartwell as a lead comp is the same error with a different lake name and a different shoreline regime.

Seasonality and supply plus 21.4 percent

Peak month is August, and peak-three are August, June, and May. Lows are January, February, and December, and that shape is the cash-flow fact. Peak-season average near $7,610 at 49.2 percent and low-season average near $2,796 at 27.0 percent are the bands. Supply up 21.4 percent against revenue down 11.9 percent is the trend pair. A DSCR conversation that assumes flat months and rising revenue is fiction twice over. Show the six named months, and show the year-over-year pair. Show your own trailing twelve if you have one. Do not send a lender August alone.

Clemson home games are an overlay, not peak-three. Clemson home-game dates and kickoff times change year to year, so check the current schedule before you model around Georgia Southern, North Carolina, Miami, Charleston Southern, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, and South Carolina rather than assuming last year's dates hold. A Saturday stadium layer can move a weekend. It does not rewrite August as the only month that matters or guess a winter peak this lake does not have. No ski persona. No downtown festival persona this sample did not earn. No Greenville Main Street persona either.

Lead time is 82 days, and august is decided early. A buyer who models same-week demand will staff wrong and price wrong. Instant Book at 13.2 percent means the request queue still matters for underwriting operations. Average stay at 4.1 nights means a seven-night floor is a different product. Underwrite the stay length you can fill, and underwrite the months the extract already named. Do not cover a December hole with a Pickens visitor-spend dollar. Visitor spend measures traveler spending in a tourism study if you can screenshot the SCPRT county line. It does not measure your rent roll. Never pair a tourism line with $44,801 or $3,578 on this page or in a lender packet.

Stay length: 52.9 percent already thirty-plus night

Fifty-two point nine percent of the sample already runs a 30-plus-night minimum. Two-night minimums sit on 26.5 percent. Average stay is 4.1 nights, 6.4 in January, 2.9 in September. Those are two products sharing one search page. A remote-month thesis is a second product, not a compliance trick and not a free pass from Pickens or SCDOR. Stays under 90 consecutive days typically stay inside the state accommodations conversation, hedge with the live page. Leave out unverified an exemption to make a DSCR look neat.

Underwrite the house for the product you can staff. A 30-plus desk needs a closed door, a real chair, measured internet you will not guess as fiber, and a tax answer. A weekend dock house needs a two-night floor that matches 4.1-night reality and a turn that can reset after eight guests if you take eight guests. Eight-plus capacity at 50 percent is WATCH for a reason. Reunion demand is not free occupancy. It is a turn cost and a review risk. Price both products separately if you offer both, and do not average them into one occupancy story.

Guests are 97.7 percent domestic, and charleston is first. Greenville is second. Greenville is the Friday origin via US-123 and SC-183, pull Maps the week you underwrite, Leave out unverified a minute. Atlanta is one I-85 sentence, and Keep the buyer memo for those households. Do not Keep it for an international resort circuit. Do not Keep it for a ski season. Do not Keep it for a Greenville downtown couple who never needed a boat. The personas post later in this cluster is the first sentence. This page is why that sentence sits in the underwrite.

Who can buy this file honestly

The honest buyer is not every household that likes Keowee photographs. The honest buyer can clear WATCH cash at $3,578 after cleaning, platform, Pickens, and SCDOR without skipping insurance. The honest buyer can explain minus 11.9 percent revenue against plus 21.4 percent supply without guessing a better year or a better town. The honest buyer can name the parcel desk, the association rule, and the Duke file before naming the ADR. The honest buyer can defend waterfront class only with waterfront rights already on paper. The honest buyer does not need Greenville, Salem SC, Sunset SC, or Hartwell to make the math close on a pitch deck.

Two units, a defended waterfront class with real slip rights, or a second-home that occupies January and February is the buyer shape that survives this sample. One hillside unit at the median, fully leveraged, with a 20 percent desk stacked on 13.9 percent cleaning, is the shape that does not survive a quiet December. This page will not guess a purchase price to pretend otherwise. It will not guess a DSCR cutoff, and it will not guess a cap rate. Bring the dated file to anyone who asks for one annual number. Bring the year-over-year pair, and bring the WATCH-cash median. Bring the map.

If you needed a close: budget 44,801 and minus 11.9 percent, stress $3,578, map the parcel, screenshot the HOA, confirm Duke before you capitalize a dock, ignore Greenville and Salem SC comps, price August-June-May as peaks and January-February-December as floors, and treat 52.9 percent thirty-plus as a product choice with a tax answer. The market report is the extract, and the rules post is the stamp. The financing post is the note conversation without guessed cutoffs. Open the dated file, and date your own trailing twelve. Then decide if the east shore is actually yours, and do not decide from an August screenshot alone.

Related Reading

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• Lake Keowee DSCR vs Second-Home on This $3,578 Month

• A 28-Night Keowee House for Greenville and Atlanta Remote Workers

• Six Mile Shoulder Season: January, February, and December Between Three Lake Months

• Six Mile STR Rules: Town Limits, Unincorporated Pickens, and Oconee Across the Water

• This Market Host Guide: What Guests Actually Ask for Independent Hosts

• Six Mile Greenville Weekend: How Hosts Should Sell the Drive

• Table Rock and Keowee-Toxaway: The Mountain Day From a Six Mile Bed

• Pricing Clemson Home Games From a Six Mile Dock

• Pickens County Tourism Spending and Six Mile Hosts: What the SCPRT Number Measures

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the typical annual revenue for a Six Mile / Lake Keowee STR in 2026?

AirROI's locked August 8, 2026 file shows $44,801 typical annual revenue, do not round up to $45,000, with occupancy at 35.8 percent and RevPAR near $159. That figure is already a blended annual number, including both peak and low months, and should be the buyer's starting point rather than an extrapolation from a single strong month.

Is revenue on this lake growing or declining?

Declining, on the current extract. Year-over-year revenue is down 11.9 percent while supply is up 21.4 percent, meaning more listings are competing for a shrinking revenue pool. A buyer should factor that trend into occupancy assumptions rather than assuming static competitive conditions matching an earlier year's data. Keep Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? figures on their own labeled line and confirm the live listing before you change rates.

What should I confirm about the parcel before underwriting revenue?

Confirm buildable and dock rights, HOA restrictions on short-term rental use, and Duke Energy's shoreline and dock permitting rules for this Duke-managed reservoir. None of those appear in the revenue figures, and any could materially limit or block the short-term rental use the buyer is underwriting. Confirm these before building a financial model. Keep Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? figures on their own labeled line and confirm the live listing before you change rates.

Does waterfront always mean higher revenue on this lake?

Waterfront properties show meaningfully higher performance as a class, with one figure showing a 234.2 percent premium, but that describes a class average, not a guarantee for any specific parcel. Dock access, water depth, and sun exposure all affect an individual waterfront house's actual performance relative to that class figure. Keep Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? figures on their own labeled line and confirm the live listing before you change rates.

Can I use Greenville, Salem, or Hartwell figures for a Six Mile investment?

No. Salem, SC shows $22,012 typical annual revenue and Sunset, SC shows $26,405 on their own separate extracts; Greenville and Hartwell are different markets entirely. Blending any of those figures into a Six Mile underwriting model produces an inaccurate number that does not represent the actual market being evaluated. Keep Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? figures on their own labeled line and confirm the live listing before you change rates.

Is a 30-plus-night minimum stay a good investment strategy here?

It is already a crowded product: 52.9 percent of listings on this lake already run a 30-plus-night minimum. A 30-night minimum is a platform filter, not automatically a filled slow month, and a remote-worker strategy needs its own proof points, not a tax-compliance shortcut. This is not a free pass from Pickens County or SCDOR requirements.

What tax obligations should I confirm before buying?

Confirm Pickens County's local accommodation remittance deadline and any late penalty directly with the county; this page's summary should not be relied on for exact figures. Also confirm South Carolina Department of Revenue obligations. This is not legal or tax advice; verify current requirements with both offices before closing. Keep Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? figures on their own labeled line and confirm the live listing before you change rates.

How should I price a property manager into my underwriting?

Treat a roughly 20 percent management fee as a real cost question against the $3,578 median month figure, not a free layer added after projected revenue. If considering professional management, get a specific quote for the actual house rather than applying a generic percentage to the market-wide median. Keep Is Six Mile / Lake Keowee a Good Short-Term Rental Investment in 2026? figures on their own labeled line and confirm the live listing before you change rates.

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