Turnkey should mean operational, not just furnished
A truly turnkey short-term rental comes with an active listing history, review count, and a documented occupancy pattern -- not just tasteful furniture and new photos. Ask for the actual booking calendar and platform reviews, not a projection.
Sellers sometimes relist a property that never operated as a short-term rental and call it turnkey because it's furnished. Furnished and operational are not the same claim, and only one of them tells you anything about revenue.
Verify the license and registration transfers
Many markets tie short-term rental permits to the operator, not the address, which means a change of ownership can require a fresh application and inspection. Confirm transferability before you count on day-one bookings.
Building this into the closing timeline, rather than discovering it afterward, is one of the more common gaps a done-for-you acquisition process is built to catch.
BNB Accelerator's acquisitions team, led by Nick Korom, screens over 1,000 short-term rental listings a week and hand-delivers the roughly 2% that clear underwriting. Book a free consultation to see what a done-for-you short-term rental acquisition looks like for your situation.