Pricing Clemson Home Games From a Six Mile Dock

Jacob Mishalanie
Aug 16
14 min read

Updated: 17 hours ago

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Clemson football is a pricing calendar overlay for Six Mile dock houses — not a reason to rebrand the town as campus housing. Peak season on AirROI’s Six Mile snapshot remains August, June, and May. Home-game autumn weekends can still move ADR and minimum stays when demand is real, but they do not rewrite the annual stack that produces $44,801 year revenue, $440 ADR, 35.8 percent occupancy, and $159 RevPAR across. Hosts who annualize seven purple Saturdays will overstate cash and understate January. Median cash is $3,578. That cell does not become comfortable because one November Saturday sold out.

The product guests buy from Six Mile is the east-shore dock night before — and after — the game, not an interior seat in Death Valley. Say that in the hero language. Proximity language should stay honest: pull Maps for Saturday morning the week of the stay if you quote a campus drive. This brief does not invent that minute count. Grocery and corridor logistics overlap Clemson. The sleep product remains Keowee. Six Mile sits on Pickens east shore on SC-133 and SC-183. Greenville is a Friday origin for many fans, not the stay. Hartwell is a different lake. Salem SC and Sunset SC are different AirROI towns.

This page locks the 2026 home slate as reconfirmed for the brief — September 12 Georgia Southern, September 19 North Carolina, October 3 Miami, October 17 Charleston Southern, October 24 Virginia Tech, November 14 Georgia Tech, November 28 South Carolina — without inventing kickoff times or guaranteed ADR lifts for any opponent. Point hosts at 2025 same-opponent comps when they build worksheets. Pair withshoulder-seasonstrategy,guest-personaclarity, and theGreenville weekendsequence so football does not devour the whole calendar. Supply is up 21.4 percent year over year. Revenue is down 11.9 percent. More keys will chase the same seven home weekends.

Peak-3 stays August, June, and May — football is not the peak stack

AirROI’s seasonal frame for Six Mile puts August first, then June and May as the rest of the peak-3. Summer lake demand, not marching-band Saturdays, still defines the strongest average months. Low season clusters in January, February, and December. Autumn football sits across a shoulder-to-fall bridge where some weekends spike and others look like ordinary shoulder if the opponent or TV window fails to travel. Peak-season averages in the extract sit near $7,610 at about 49.2 percent occupancy and ADR near $472. Low-season averages sit near $2,796 at 27.0 percent occupancy and ADR near $406. Underwrite the year with peak-3 lake math first. Clemson homes are discrete events on that calendar, not a fourth peak season this extract does not print.

Add football as discrete weekend events with their own minimum stays, cleaning capacity, and noise rules. If your model needs every home date to clear peak-August ADR to make the note work, the model is wrong — especially with market occupancy at 35.8 percent and median cash at $3,578. Cleaning median near $176 and average near $254 already bite on quick turns. Home-game weekends often want Friday arrival and Sunday exit, sometimes with Saturday late returns. Staff accordingly or raise minimums so you are not funding two cleans for one emotional Saturday. Cleaning is about 13.9 percent of gross in the sample. That share does not shrink because the guest wore orange.

Differentiation returns to product truth: licensed dock versus Mile Creek instructions, sleep count, and quiet professionalism — not a generic tiger graphic. Waterfront amenity listings show a plus 234.2 percent product-class gap in the extract. Football does not convert an inland house into waterfront. Sell the porch and the morning coffee either way. Entire-home share is 95.6 percent. Three-plus bedrooms are 64.8 percent of the sample. Eight-plus guest capacity is 50 percent WATCH. Write the house you have.

2026 home slate — use the list, not invented kickoffs

For draft-week planning, treat these 2026 Clemson home dates as the working slate: September 12 Georgia Southern; September 19 North Carolina; October 3 Miami; October 17 Charleston Southern; October 24 Virginia Tech; November 14 Georgia Tech; November 28 South Carolina. Reconfirm against official athletics sources before you freeze house rules or paid ads, because athletics calendars can still move. Do not invent kickoff times in evergreen posts. Kickoffs shift for television. Your pre-arrival message the week of the game should carry the kickoff once it is official, along with a Saturday morning Maps pull if guests are driving to campus. Until then, sell the dock night and flexible morning plan, not a false clock promise.

Opponent quality changes travel behavior. A November rivalry weekend does not price like an early-September tune-up solely because both are home games. Use 2025 same-opponent or similar-opponent booking comps from your own calendar or market tools when you set floors. This brief does not invent a percentage ADR lift for any matchup. Block owner use on the weekends you intend to monetize. The 52.9 percent share of 30-plus-night stays in AirROI’s mix reminds you that monthly guests can collide with football weekends if you do not calendar carefully. Either discount a monthly stay around a game blackout or keep those weeks for short stays only.

Two-night stays are 26.5 percent of the mix. September average stay drops to 2.9 nights in the extract. January stretches to 6.4. Football season can look like short sharp stays next to longer shoulder blocks. Price the product on the calendar you actually open. Lead time averages about 82 days. Marquee games may book earlier. Soft games may book later. Open the calendar early enough for planners, and keep a last-minute protocol for soft opponents that is still polite to neighbors.

Hero language is the Six Mile dock the night before

Lead photos and first paragraphs should show the water at dusk, the slip or the porch, and the quiet after guests return — not a stadium bowl you do not control. Guests can buy campus-adjacent rooms closer to Memorial Stadium. They book Six Mile for a lake house base with a game attached. Stadium-interior language belongs to ticket sellers. It does not belong as your hero claim. Write the sequence: Friday grocery and dock orientation, Saturday game logistics as the guest’s project, Saturday night back on the east shore, Sunday checkout. That matches the Greenville weekend spine when guests originate there, and it still works for longer-drive fans who treat the lake as the reward.

If you lack a licensed private slip, say so and point to Mile Creek Park for trailered boats on non-game mornings — or skip boat promises entirely on heavy game weekends when time is short. Water truth still sits in thepublic-access-versus-private-dockpage. Football does not suspend Duke Energy Keowee-Toxaway SMP and FERC rules. Private slips are licensed or they are not. Community docks have rules or they do not. Mile Creek at 757 Keowee Baptist Church Road is the public trailer story — three paved ramps, courtesy docks, 150-foot dock with five loading slips on county amenities copy. Hedge hours and fees.

Avoid implying you can deliver parking on campus, tailgate spaces, or ticket packages unless you actually can. Package what you control: beds, late checkout policy if any, quiet hours, and a kitchen that handles pre-game breakfast for eight-plus guests. Exact location disclosure is only 44.1 percent in the sample. Clear driving language still matters when fans arrive Friday after work. Pull Greenville to Six Mile via US-123 and SC-183 for Friday 5 p.m. the week of stay. Do not invent the minute. Atlanta fans get one I-85 sentence and the same finish — then back to dock operations.

Pricing tactics without fictional lifts

Build a worksheet with columns for each 2026 home date. Rows: base shoulder ADR, cleaning fee, minimum stay, cancellation policy, and last year’s same-opponent result if you have it. Fill ADR with your data or conservative market reads — not with a made-up plus 40 percent for Miami claim from a social thread. If you lack history, start from your own shoulder Friday–Sunday rate and adjust only after watchful inventory checks the week of. Length-of-stay rules matter more than a single sky-high Saturday night. A two-night minimum can still leave you with a one-night gap you cannot sell. A three-night minimum around marquee games can protect cleans and neighbor goodwill.

Occupancy for the market is 35.8 percent. Empty Fridays in mid-November can still happen when weather turns or the slate is soft. Gap nights after a big weekend are real. Price the shoulder nights beside the game, not only the peak night, or you will own a clean, empty Tuesday. Instant Book at 13.2 percent suggests most hosts still gate guests. For game weekends, manual approval helps you screen for party risk, trailer plans, and vehicle count. Superhost share at 75.0 percent and Guest Favorite at 76.5 percent show the competitive bar. One viral party review costs more than a missed Saturday.

Do not annualize seven home weekends into a year. Do not compare your one door to Evolve’s four-door concentration cell or Clemson Vacation Rentals’ three-door cell and call the sum your market. Those are concentration facts inside, not your pro forma. Your underwriting still starts at $44,801 and $3,578 unless your own trailing twelve says otherwise. Revenue down 11.9 percent with supply up 21.4 percent is a caution on how hard every host will push the same purple weekends.

Operations on home weekends

Quiet hours and parking diagrams are not optional footnotes. Large groups celebrating wins — or mourning losses — test HOA patience. Screenshot community rules before you advertise perfect for Clemson fans. Some covenants cap rentals or gatherings regardless of how good the opponent is. This brief does not invent Reserve or Cliffs handbooks. Obtain yours. Turnover staffing should assume late Saturday returns and early Sunday checkouts. Stock extras: trash bags, paper goods, basic breakfast. Cleaning teams need gate codes that work at 8 a.m. Sunday. If your cleaner is also watching the game, hire a backup.

Noise complaints map to reviews and to county relationships. Pickens registration and accommodations tax remittance still apply on football nights the same as on lake nights. Hedge local A-tax percent. Remit by the 20th to avoid the 5 percent late penalty frame in county materials. SCDOR sales and state A-tax remain a separate desk. Town of Six Mile business license only if the parcel is inside town. AirROI Low is not the ordinance. Property-manager penetration at 19.1 percent CLEAR means most hosts still own the inbox on purple weekends. Answer requests inside an hour or turn Instant Book on for the dates you can staff.

Coordinate with theGreenville-origin weekendguidance: US-123 and SC-183 and SC-133 still carry fans who never sleep in Six Mile. Your guests share those roads. Paste a Friday 5 p.m. Maps estimate the week of stay rather than inventing minutes. Dock damage and missing life jackets should be checked before cars leave Sunday. Eight-plus guest homes need extra parking language. Half the inventory can sleep that many. Plan the pad before you approve the reunion.

Comps, personas, and what not to copy

Use 2025 same-opponent weekends as the first comp set when pricing 2026. Same opponent, similar calendar position, similar weather band if you can. Cross-check against non-game autumn weekends so you know the true football delta for your address. Do not import Greenville downtown event pricing or Hartwell lake comps. Guest personas for Six Mile still center domestic travelers with Charleston and Greenville among origin labels — not a pure student crash pad. Families and multi-couple friend groups use dock houses differently than undergraduates. If you do not want undergraduate party risk, say so in house rules and minimum age policies that comply with platform and law.

Salem SC and Sunset SC AirROI medians are different towns. Do not transfer their football-weekend behavior onto Six Mile. Oconee west-shore inventory is a different drive to campus and a different tax desk. Stay on the east-shore Pickens story. Waterfront amenity listings show a large revenue premium in the Six Mile sample. Keep plus 234.2 percent language in the product-class conversation where it belongs — not as a guaranteed game-day kicker. Average stay of 4.1 nights and lead of 82 days still shape how early you open autumn. Guests at 97.7 percent domestic will plan from Charleston and Greenville calendars more than from national sports-tourism mythology.

Readwho booksbefore you write gameday HQ copy. Readshoulder seasonbefore you paint every October night purple. The lake still has fishing, hiking, and quiet docks on weekends without a home game. Force-feeding tiger branding onto empty shoulder nights is how you look desperate in the search grid.

Calendar architecture for the full year

Paint football weekends on a twelve-month calendar beside peak-3 summer holds, winter soft months, and any 30-plus-night strategy. The mid-term mix at 52.9 percent can stabilize cash if you manage game blackouts in the lease. Remote-worker months and football spike weekends can coexist if you communicate blocked dates early. Shoulder-season content in this cluster covers quieter products — use it for weekends without a home game instead of forcing purple branding onto every autumn night. Peak-season averages near $7,610 and low-season averages near $2,796 are still the annual poles. Seven home dates do not erase that shape.

Track lead time. Market average lead sits near 82 days. Marquee games may book earlier. Soft games later. Open early. Keep a soft-opponent protocol that lowers minimums only after you check remaining inventory and cleaner capacity. Year revenue of $44,801 is a median snapshot, not your personal scoreboard. Beating it requires summer lake execution first. Football is spice. Treat it that way in board decks and in spouse conversations about buying more inventory. January, February, and December remain the soft floor even after a perfect November Saturday. Model reserves accordingly. A second-home buyer from Greenville or Atlanta who blocks rivalry weekend for family use is not failing the business — they are living the second-home thesis.

Do not invent purchase prices, DSCR cutoffs, or ADR lifts to make the calendar look stronger. Do not paste visitor-spend tourism dollars next to $44,801. Visitor spend is not host revenue. Keep financing conversations in thefinancing post. Keep this page on pricing calendar and ops. If a monthly guest wants October, write the game blackouts into the agreement before the first night. If you sell short stays only, protect three-night minimums on marquee dates so gap nights do not eat the clean.

Listing copy checklist for game weekends

Open with the dock or porch night. Name Six Mile and Lake Keowee before you name the stadium. State bed and bath counts, guest maximums, and parking. State water access category in one line: licensed private slip, community dock, or Mile Creek only. Offer a short home-game weekends section that lists how you handle minimum stays and quiet hours without promising tickets. Link internally toshoulder-season strategy, theGreenville weekend trip guide, andwho books these rentals. Paste the working 2026 slate only after you reconfirm it, and never invent kickoffs in the evergreen body.

Keep stadium hero shots out of the gallery unless you control the view. Keep Hartwell out of the lead. Keep Greenville city gates out of the itinerary. Reconfirm the 2026 slate and kickoffs on official sources before ads freeze. Price from 2025 same-opponent comps not slogans. Note that peak-3 remains August, June, and May even when autumn Saturdays look purple on social media. Exact location at 44.1 percent and Instant Book at 13.2 percent mean many hosts still gate and still hide pins — your game-weekend message has to carry the drive and the house rules either way.

Crest & Cove frames Clemson homes as a calendar tool for east-shore operators. We do not manage Lake Keowee properties. Let the Six Mile dock remain the hero the night before. Screenshot athletics calendars the week you publish. Screenshot HOA quiet hours the week you publish. Then sell the sleep product you actually control on Pickens County’s Keowee east shore only.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Clemson football the peak season for Six Mile STRs?

AirROI’s Six Mile peak-3 remains August, June, and May. Home-game weekends are a pricing overlay that can lift specific autumn dates, but they do not replace summer lake demand in the annual stack. Underwrite $44,801 year revenue and 35.8% occupancy with lake seasonality first, then layer discrete game weekends. Home-game autumn weekends can still move ADR and minimum stays when demand is real, but they do not rewrite the annual stack that produces $44,801 year revenue, $440 ADR, 35.8 percent occupancy, and $159 RevPAR across.

Which 2026 Clemson home games should hosts calendar?

Working slate for this brief: Sep 12 Georgia Southern, Sep 19 North Carolina, Oct 3 Miami, Oct 17 Charleston Southern, Oct 24 Virginia Tech, Nov 14 Georgia Tech, Nov 28 South Carolina. Reconfirm on official athletics sources before ads freeze. Do not invent kickoff times in evergreen copy; paste kickoff in the week-of guest message.

How should listing hero language talk about games?

Lead with the Six Mile dock or porch the night before and after the game. Do not hero Death Valley interior imagery you do not control. Guests can sleep closer to campus; they book Keowee for the lake base. Keep stadium promises out of captions unless you actually provide tickets or parking you control. The product guests buy from Six Mile is the east-shore dock night before — and after — the game, not an interior seat in Death Valley.

Can you quote a standard ADR lift for home games?

This brief does not invent ADR lift percentages. Build a per-date worksheet from your 2025 same-opponent comps and current market reads. Marquee matchups and soft tune-ups do not price the same. Watch remaining inventory the week of, and protect cleaning capacity with minimum-stay rules instead of one sky-high Saturday night alone. Use 2025 same-opponent or similar-opponent booking comps from your own calendar or market tools when you set floors.

Should game-day guests also get a full lake itinerary?

Align with the Greenville weekend guide: Saturday is primarily game logistics or primarily lake time. A short morning water window before a late kickoff can work. Full pontoon days plus full campus days produce late noise, exhausted guests, and weaker reviews for the dock house. Your pre-arrival message the week of the game should carry the kickoff once it is official, along with a Saturday morning Maps pull if guests are driving to campus.

Do football weekends change dock or tax rules?

Private slips still require Duke Energy Keowee-Toxaway SMP / FERC compliance. Public launch still points to Mile Creek when you lack a slip. Pickens registration and accommodations tax, plus SCDOR desks, still apply. Hedge local A-tax percent and remit on time; game flags do not create a special exemption. If you lack a licensed private slip, say so and point to Mile Creek Park for trailered boats on non-game mornings — or skip boat promises entirely on heavy game weekends when time is short.

How do monthly stays interact with home games?

AirROI shows 52.9% of Six Mile stays already at 30-plus nights. Monthly guests can block your ability to sell marquee weekends if dates overlap. Either write game blackouts into mid-term agreements, price the month inclusive of lost spike nights, or keep those weeks on short-stay inventory only. Either discount a monthly stay around a game blackout or keep those weeks for short stays only.

Does a 30-night setting fill the slow month?

A 30-night minimum is a platform filter. Typical stay on these extracts is still a short trip. The filter is not a filled slow month and it is not a remote-work product you did not photograph. A two-night minimum can still leave you with a one-night gap you cannot sell. If you sell short stays only, protect three-night minimums on marquee dates so gap nights do not eat the clean.

Do short-term rental licenses transfer with the deed?

Do not invent a town permit fee this page did not confirm. Keep this page on pricing calendar and ops. Clemson football is a pricing calendar overlay for Six Mile dock houses — not a reason to rebrand the town as campus housing.