What Florida Market Should We Move to / Invest in?

[Trace Garretson]

It is time for a change and after making some money on our current home in Colorado, we are ready to get out of the mortgage while we are ahead. We are also anxious to stop paying our current $1350 monthly mortgage. We will have at least 60k that we can apply to investing. We also have a savings set aside so that we can take 6 months off and essentially do absolutely nothing but soul searching. 

When we begin to work again full time, we will be making between 90k and 110k in our respective fields combined annually, based on researching areas such as Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville and more.

We both want proximity to clear beach waters, a safe neighborhood, an active area with both day and night activities, and a market that we could eventually have a cash flowing rental in.

Where would you all suggest and why?

[Kristin Kiddy]

We spent 10 years in Centennial, Co, but we've been living in Ormond Beach for the past  5 years and love it.  My husband is in tech/computers and works from home for a Jacksonville company.  He only goes into the office twice a month.  If you can swing a work at home scenario, then your location options really expand.  Ormond is also a huge medical office area.  So don't rule out smaller bedroom communities like it.  And, don't rule out the east coast. I prefer it to the gulf.