@Matt Crusinberry Hey Matt I am in the same situation as Tyrik....

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Hi Matt, I wanted to take up the other side of this a little bit.

You got a great deal Matt! I

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-08/seth-klarman-born-bulls-bitcoin-truman-show-market Matt, I wanted to chime in (2) years later,  yes, we saw some funny stuff happen with bitcoin instability, now the currency is much more stable and rationale for lack of a better term, we are now accepting BitCoin at our company for Real Estate investing!

That was very weak advice and any future market analysis from those folks should be suspect to say the least.Hey Matt,I do business with A LOT of California investors and to be fair, they are no different than investors in every other state.  

@Matt Y Thanks for the response.  

Matt, I can't speak to if the area is a "good investment" or not, I suppose that is dependent on the deal you get on your property (I am not a real estate agent) but I will say that short term rentals (not synonymous with AirBnB) can do very well in Mammoth Lakes.

Since I'm pretty sure nobody here has much involvement with massive numbers of data tapes, I'll also throw out that my day job just released a tape analytics product I designed for performing this same sort of analysis on data tapes and drives to detect potential problems before they result in data loss.The challenge for what you describe, Matt, is data.

Mattie, many if not most communities regulate cable, phone and by extension Internet as a utility.