Mid-term rental guides for investors and operators
Guides on furnished monthly rentals: pricing 30+ night stays, picking a market, finding travel-nurse tenants, and underwriting the MTR vs long-term premium. Every recommendation maps to data inside MTR Analytics.
- Fundamentals10 min read
What is a mid-term rental?
What a 30+ night rental is, who books it, why the 30-night line matters, and the July 2026 premium over Census rent across 8,946 U.S. ZIP codes.
Read the guide - Market analysis13 min read
How to analyze a mid-term rental market
How to run mid-term rental market analysis on your ZIP: 30+ night comps, furnished monthly rent, demand drivers, and the premium over a long-term lease.
Read the guide - Market research8 min read
Best mid-term rental markets in 2026
168 U.S. cities ranked by gross rent yield for furnished monthly rentals, plus where monthly-stay demand is deepest and where the furnished premium is largest.
Read the guide - Pricing9 min read
How to price a mid-term rental
What the average monthly rate (AMR) means, how to build a comp band for your exact unit, what to include in rent, where to launch, and when to re-price.
Read the guide - Underwriting12 min read
How to underwrite a mid-term rental
AMR from real comps, occupancy with placement gaps, the MTR expense stack, and the decision metrics: cash flow, cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR, and the MTR vs LTR premium.
Read the guide - Underwriting8 min read
Mid-term rental calculator
How to calculate mid-term rental income from a 30+ night monthly rate, occupancy, and expenses, and why a short-term revenue estimate is the wrong input.
Read the guide - Underwriting8 min read
Mid-term rental arbitrage
What mid-term rental arbitrage is, how the spread before occupancy differs from the spread after it, and what still has to be underwritten before you sign a lease.
Read the guide - Tenants10 min read
How to rent to travel nurses
What travel nurses need in a furnished rental, how to price for 13-week contracts, where to find travel-nurse tenants, and how to screen, lease, and handle turnovers.
Read the guide - Operations11 min read
Where to list a mid-term rental
Furnished Finder, Airbnb, VRBO, Zillow, Apartments.com, and Blueground reach different 30+ night tenants. Most landlords list on two.
Read the guide - Data access12 min read
Mid-term rental data for AI
A Pro connector that lets an AI underwrite an address, compare homes for sale, screen markets by Level I trauma centers, read a saved Opportunities report, and compare the deals already in your pipeline.
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Put the guides to work on real data
Rent range and listing range for every U.S. state, city, and ZIP code we track, with the methodology behind every number.