Looking into my crystal ball - which I still keep in my closet from my previous life on Capitol Hill - neither of these risks have a realistic path to a meaningful economic effect.

I would say Hocking Hills would fit the category as well!

Hi, I'm interested in picking up a short-term rental property in Fredericksburg (Hill Country), TX.

I actually loved your first comment, and assumed that there was a silent rant hiding in there too lolWhen I bought my house and after extensive research in the areas I was focusing on, I realized that unlike most other markets, real estate is much more "accurate".

Or, you can try moving out to Morgan Hill or Gilroy, where home prices are more affordable compared to San Jose. 

I’m being a bit uncharitable here, but they backed off of their original plan, stayed silent for two months, and then quietly passed a regulation stating four or more unrelated occupants can’t live together.

These are typically 'non english-speaking' neighborhood so to speak for political correctness. so parking while already become a problem, but adding ADU in that neighborhood would not become a problem because 'everyone knows each other' everyone has their own unit.But that ADU thing, is bit uncommon in 'english-speaking neighborhood' LOL, so that's where "some" people is complaining about parking space and so on and so on when one home is building ADU.For me, I prefer to have ADU on the hill side, now we have 15 car space and from one neighbor to next neighbor is like quite distant.

These companies do NOT have their own money they all tie into Large hedgefund or insurance company LOC's that can change on a whim and you know sheeet flows down hill.

ask them for recent permit pulls in the county and go look them up to verify activity. you can also call the local building department to verify their license and recent activity. if you don't see any run for the hills. 

There are 2 ways to pull it off in Highland/Mac/Cathedral Hill/Summit Hill - 1.