And yes, we’ll be a family of five soon and expect more visitors in town.

I will say almost all my STR visitors to South Padre are from Austin, and if I were to care or dig deeper I bet a lot are cali transplants.Go South Padre!

With over 9 million visitors a year and considered the Las Vegas of the Ozarks I would think this would be a no brainer.  

This doesn't mean that you shouldn't be ambitious with your objectives, as long as you're realistic.I have years of experience with short-term rentals in Mexico but I'm not sure how useful that can be to you since I invest in beach markets where there is mass tourism and visitors rent for one or multiple weeks so it's fairly different.

@Daniel Purcell with City of New Orleans being so restrictive, is there a neighboring City that seems to have less of an issue with STRs and is still fairly accessible to all the things visitors are interested in?

Just quick math Adsense for 10,000 visitors gets you around $450-500/mo. 10,000 visitors takes good content and some healthy traffic generation.You'd have to pay someone to do that so deduct that from your net income.

While the timing favors commuters over visitors, expect heavy traffic on detour routes during these weekends.I hope you’ve enjoy this month’s newsletter.

., will have an ebb and flow of visitors depending on the current demand.

Which to get those had system that provided resources to 1,800+ website visitors etc.. 

I do not want to go into another vacation market but rather a metro area with a more diversified economy again just to get into a different type of asset.That being said I do want to continue to short term rent the next few properties we get at least in the first few years of ownership in order to increase cash flow to combat these higher prices and carrying costs before potentially converting to more passive long terms down the line.Therefore I am looking for markets that 1) have a decent draw of visitors year round 2) have regulations that allow strs in some parts of the city 3) Are in growing cities in the west or south.Below is a list of markets I have identified as potential places to look and I was hoping to get some insight from either other investors doing the same thing or agents/investors in any of these markets on whether this is potentially a good market to explore or not.1) Salt Lake City (this is right at the top of my list due to its proximity to ski resorts, expanding of the airport and long term strategic business planning of the area but I have very little knowledge of this market)2) Denver 3) Phoenix (used to live in AZ and like the fact that the state of AZ seems to look favorable on strs)4) Tucson (see above but lower home prices/potentially less appreciation)5) San Diego/LA (these are attractive because of their proximity to my home in Irvine)6) San Antonio (love that it is very close to the booming Austin and feel that this is a market that could see some real growth in the future)7) Tampa/St Pete (I have always been very interested in this market for both short term and long term rentals)8) Raleigh (have invested in Charlotte and love NC but again very little knowledge on this area)Any insights or advice on any of this would be greatly appreciated.