A seasonal renter is a tourist, not a snowbird. A snowbird is someone who actually has skin in the game, an owner who uses his Villages residence around 6 months a year.

We debated as to the investment in mattresses for our new home in Newell until Costco's Labor Day sale and so we went with new Caspers for all three bedrooms (king, queen and 2 twins). We absolutely love our Caspers in our home up north. (I expect some here will disagree, oh well, it's a new high quality mattress and satisfies the Op's post).

Additionally, we went with all new furniture throughout the house ... "Buy Once, Cry Once" as the saying goes.
We want that new house feel for our new house ... for ourselves and our renters and guests.
Our moving truck just pulled away from our house yesterday and we'll be there moving in this coming week!

Unfortunately, we can't retire just yet with one son still in college and having just married off our daughter last month so we'll be listing our home for rent this winter.

Especially in Paris!!!

And yet there are some who really don’t care for Casper, and would say you chose poorly to use that mattress for rental. Can’t ever please some

I appreciate the responses to my mattress issue. However, being too hard or too soft is not the issue. Lumps and sags in the middle make for a very uncomfortable night’s sleep. I will talk to the landlord about this issue.

Best move
 

The best move for a landlord is to buy premium foam mattresses with the covers. Once a guest leaves, just wash the cover before the next guest arrives. It would cut the likelihood of Bedbugs too.

I can't imagine any landlord who doesn't use mattress covers. We certainly do. We even use them on our own beds. But then, being Villages landlords, we are hardly anything like the "slumlords" that this thread has spent three pages disparaging. (By the way, if we're "slum lords", what does that make this community where we all chose to spend our retirement?).