If you have flipped 5 properties this year and this property seems exactly like the others but you rent it for 6 months- your intent screams flip. 

Visitors often are one of the highest contributors to local economy with very low draws from the economy I.e. visitors earn, draw and make from their local economy and grow, spend or support the visiting economy.As for morality I think we can all agree that STR are not immoral in a resort ski town because they add to a market which doesn’t have much need for LTR because of lack of jobs but high demand for STR because of the geographical accommodations which provides economic stability, allowing for individuals to reside there outside of retirement or remote working.

It ruined my day, I yelled and screamed, but then I paid it, moved on and forgot about it.

I was hoping that you would have a grand tale of being able to swoop in on something that had sat in short sale for so long and get a screaming deal

We could scream "don't invest in CA until a crash comes" from the rooftops all day but people are still going to do it.

And, most visitors to Cancun go to all-inclusive resorts, not short-term rentals who can't compete for obvious reasons.

My initial thoughts/questions:I would consider Airbnb, we are by no means a tourist area but we do have our visitors and our location and distance to both Milwaukee and Chicago lends itself to potential business travel. 

Mia,Lake Marion and Santee get around 100k visitors a year and aside form the Lake, you have a lot of Golf enthusiasts coming to stay for the short and long term. 

@Tom HarkinsThanks for your reply, we have a young child and frequent family visitors so a SFH may make sense as well, but figured a 2 bedroom 2 bath condo or smaller townhouse would be a more rentable property, what was your experience with your SFH and if you don't mind me asking what was the price point for a SFH vs Condo/Townhome in MoCo.

Intown Atlanta will have visitors throughout the year.