During non-COVID times, Nashville is booming with tourism and requires a lot of STR.

With the inability to spend money at service industry related businesses — restaurants, leisure & hospitality, tourism, etc. — consumers are spending more on Goods (laptop, workout equipment, appliances, etc.) in addition to saving their money for the unknown.Online retail sales is a notable reference outlining the uptick in “Goods” spending with a +2.7% YOY increase in spending.(2)People are also spending more money fixing up their houses, which is putting strain on supply of materials pushing the price of lumber and other building material up.Austin’s Real Estate & Economic Landscape Doing Okay?

Look for Caeli Ridge on Youtube.However, there are onerous hoops to jump through: DTI ratio in bounds, paperwork to be uploaded, tax returns and so forth. 

@Sungyong Kim When tourism returns in full force you'll probably want to STR through AirBNB to make more money.

Houses sell the best during the spring and early summer months and travel/tourism is pretty good year round but much better in the non-100 degree months.Since you're going to the midwest, properties are considerably cheaper and cashing out here can probably get you a few rental properties you can self-manage once you move.

Tourism will restart there fastest as well.

Purchase price: $480,000 Cash invested: $67,000 Retirement Home / Appreciation Play Home What better way to be in love with your retirement home than to purchase a property in a location where growth is inbound?

., but we have a somewhat different employment history than most: We both work seasonal tourism jobs.We spend summers working as Expedition Guides (on boats) in Alaska, which pays fairly well but only lasts for 4-5 months of the year.

Our biggest issue is identifying a perfect town that will be affordable and have enough tourism.

As well, Greenville tries to be touristy, but it does compete in the same tourism market as the coastline, to which it looses pretty badly.