@Camille Romerounless you are able to spend some significant time in your chosen location in person, and work on building a network there, i would pick a market closer to NYC, within a couple hours.  

Im working on a couple of pre listings. 

There are lots of hard money options (or maybe not "lots" but not too uncommon) with no appraisal required - that makes the offer equivalent to cash (closing within a couple days and no appraisal contingency - its out there)The lender still has to ok the deal, appraisal or not.

I’ve done a couple of fix-and-flip projects in the past, both of which were financed through hard money lenders.

Waikiki area (however there are a couple STR buildings outside Waikiki), Turtle Bay (North Shore), Ko'olina (Westside) and Cottages at Mauna'olu Estates.  

I also just requested to join a couple fb groups realted to STRs in DFW. 

hi all,I'm a rookie investor, have a couple of properties that cash flow well.

Hell, even Motel 6 has a couple of junk pictures screwed to the wall.

but it also has a couple shortfalls: - Low to fair rents at best - Low rent appreciationI bought fairly smart, but still not smart enough to consider it an immediate good return.

My husband and I purchased our first Costa Rica property last year and were advised by our agent that in almost 6 years of working in that market he had only ever seen 1 American Couple successfully obtain a mortgage in Costa Rica and it was from Scotia Bank.