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30536, Ellijay, GA
CREATIVE FINANCE ELLIJAY, GA MOUNTAIN CABINContract for Deed | 2 Acres | Turnkey Renovated | $Contact for details Down + Take Over Payments ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Recently renovated mountain cabin on 2 acres in Ellijay, GA the heart of the Blue Ridge / North Georgia STR corridor. Contract for Deed structure means no bank qualification required. Contact for details down gets you turnkey control of a fully renovated 2023 property in one of Georgia's most operator-friendly Airbnb markets. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEAL STRUCTURE CONTRACT FOR DEED - Purchase Price: $575,000 - Seller Financing Amount: Contact for details - Down Payment (down payment): Contact for details - Monthly Payment: Contact for details - Period: 5 years + 2-year extension clause - No Bank Qualification Required ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE PROPERTY - 2 acres mountain setting - Recently renovated interior + exterior (2023) - Brand new roof (2023) - New sewer + new well - Window unit A/C (mini-split upgrade optional, not required) - Quiet mountain community - Turnkey condition no major deferred maintenance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ALREADY DONE (No Rehab Required to Operate) - Interior renovation complete (2023) - Exterior renovation complete (2023) - New roof (2023)- New sewer system - New well - No major deferred maintenance Optional future upgrades (not required): - Mini-split A/C system for year-round comfort - STR furnishing package / experience enhancements (game room, hot tub, fire pit) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ELLIJAY STR MARKET DATA (Verified AirROI + Rabbu 2026) - Average nightly rate (ADR): $328 - Average annual revenue: Contact for details - October occupancy: 54% (peak season) - Active Ellijay STR listings: 1,024 - Regulation: LOW (operator-friendly) - Peak months: July, October, November Performance Tiers: - Top 10% of Ellijay listings: Contact for details+/mo (~$81K+/year) - Top 25% of Ellijay listings: Contact for details+/mo (~$56K+/year) - Median performer: Contact for details/mo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WAYS TO WIN AIRBNB / SHORT-TERM RENTAL (PRIMARY PLAY) Turnkey property in proven STR corridor. Blue Ridge / North Georgia is a drive-to destination from Atlanta (90 min), Chattanooga (2 hr), Nashville (3.5 hr), and Birmingham (3.5 hr). Weekend + holiday demand is strong from October apple/wine tourism through spring. Operators hitting top-25% performance (Contact for details+/mo) cover the Contact for details monthly payment plus expenses with cushion. CO-HOST / MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP MODEL Team with an established Ellijay STR management company. Split revenue 65/35 or 70/30 (owner/manager). Reduces operating burden while capturing the majority of STR income. Multiple Ellijay-based hospitality companies actively seek turnkey inventory. HYBRID PERSONAL USE + INCOME Use the cabin for personal getaways during shoulder seasons + holidays. Rent it out during peak weekends. Georgia state tax benefits + bonus depreciation reinstated for 2026 = significant tax advantages for high-income W-2 earners using STR as a tax shelter. LONG-TERM HOLD + REFINANCE Stabilize STR performance over 24-36 months. Refinance conventionally at Year 3-4 to pay off seller carry before the 5-year. Convert to a lower-cost long-term loan once the property has verifiable STR income history. SELL AFTER SEASONING Establish 2-3 years of STR performance data. Sell to another operator with income documentation supporting a higher valuation. Ellijay STR properties with proven revenue trade at premium multiples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY ELLIJAY WORKS - North Georgia mountain corridor proven drive-to destination- Apple orchards, wineries, fall foliage tourism - Trout fishing, hiking, whitewater rafting - 90 minutes from Atlanta (huge feeder market) - Chateau Meichtry, Cartecay Vineyards, Ellijay's downtown wine scene- Georgia Apple Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival, seasonal events - Low STR regulation environment no permit caps- STR supply growing but demand outpacing supply - Blue Ridge / Amicalola Falls proximity ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HONEST DISCLOSURES Turnkey no rehab needed to begin operating Recent renovations (2023) interior, exterior, roof, sewer, well Contract for Deed = no bank qualification barrier Low Ellijay STR regulation environment Proven vacation rental corridor Only $Contact for details down payment capital required Purchase price ($$575,000) is above recent appraisal ($4Contact for details) this is common in seller-finance/CFD structures where the buyer trades price for terms (no bank, no closing costs, no qualifying). Underwrite accordingly. Monthly payment of Contact for details approximates MEDIAN Ellijay STR revenue. To generate real the property must operate at TOP-25% performance or better (~Contact for details+/mo). Window unit A/C only mini-split upgrade recommended for premium STR positioning STR furnishing package NOT included budget $20-30K for high-quality initial furnishing to hit top-tier performance Verify Gilmer County + Ellijay municipal STR permitting for this specific address before closing 2-acre lot verify short-term rental use is permitted by any HOA / community covenants 5-YEAR must refinance, sell, or exercise 2-year extension before Year 5. Plan the exit strategy from day one. Contract for Deed structures: title typically remains with seller until final payment. Understand the specific CFD terms and default provisions before signing. Consult a Georgia real estate attorney. Ellijay average occupancy is 36.5% this is NOT a set-it-and-forget-it market. Requires active pricing management, professional photography, and guest experience optimization to achieve top-tier revenue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REALISTIC BUYER MATH Median Performance Scenario (Contact for details/mo revenue):- Revenue: Contact for details/year- Payment: Contact for details/year- Operating expenses (30%): -Contact for details- Net: Slightly negative NOT recommended at this performance tier Top 25% Performance Scenario (Contact for details/mo revenue):- Revenue: Contact for details/year- Payment: Contact for details/year- Operating expenses (30%): -Contact for details- Net: ~Contact for details/year + tax benefits Top 10% Performance Scenario (Contact for details/mo revenue):- Revenue: Contact for details/year- Payment: Contact for details/year- Operating expenses (30%): -Contact for details- Net: ~Contact for details/year + strong tax benefits + equity build ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEAL TERMS - Down Payment: Contact for details down - Purchase Price: $575,000 - Seller Financing: Contact for details - Monthly Payment: Contact for details - years + 2-year extension option - Structure: Contract for Deed- Ideal Closing: (specify) - Bank statements + POF required to verify down payment fee funds ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IDEAL BUYER Experienced STR operators with an optimization playbook Existing Ellijay / Blue Ridge STR portfolio holders (add-on inventory) Creative finance / Contract for Deed investors Owner-occupants seeking personal-use + STR income hybrid Co-hosting partnership seekers (established GA management companies want turnkey inventory) High-income W-2 earners seeking bonus depreciation tax shelter (with STR compliance strategy) Long-term appreciation + equity build hold investors Contact your disposition manager for photos, walkthrough scheduling, current STR comps in the immediate vicinity, and the full Contract for Deed terms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Photos: Available upon request Address disclosed to qualified buyers with signed NDA and POF verification
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