Flagstaff, Sedona, Village of Oak Creek, Cottonwood and the areas around them rent to different people at different prices. Which community you own in decides the return — here is how we read them.
About 7,000 feet, four real seasons, and a university town where most homes are rentals. The best leasing window comes before the fall semester, and mountain properties carry snow load, freeze protection and plowed access as line items. Downtown, the Southside, Cheshire, University Heights and Ponderosa Trails inside the city, and Kachina Village and Doney Park in unincorporated Coconino County.
Red rock country and a busy visitor market, where every short-term rental unit needs a City permit under City Code Chapter 5.25. Uptown, West Sedona and the neighborhoods off 89A rent to very different guests and tenants. Sedona has its own site; we manage it as part of the same northern book.
South of Sedona on SR-179, under Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte, with golf at the Sedona Golf Resort and Oakcreek Country Club and a quieter, more residential character than Uptown. Unincorporated Yavapai County, which changes the short-term rules.
Cottonwood, Clarkdale, Cornville and Jerome along the Verde River: Old Town, the wine trail, Dead Horse Ranch and the Verde Canyon Railroad, at a lower purchase price than Sedona. We manage throughout the Verde Valley, and it has its own Barré site.
The incorporated town at the I-17 and the river, founded around Fort Verde in 1865, with Montezuma Castle at the north end and historic irrigation ditches whose shares can attach to a parcel. Ninety minutes to Phoenix, thirty to Sedona.
Ponderosa pines at about 6,500 feet, 21 miles south of Flagstaff, and a cabin market busiest from late spring through fall: 83% of its homes were counted as vacant on Census Day 2020. Most owners live somewhere else, and the maintenance list — freeze protection, propane, snow load, access — decides whether a season is profitable.
