I and a partner bought a run-down, old Holidome hotel in North Dakota which was 1,200 miles away.

Without this property I would have spend thousands in hotels and air bnb fees to see my son.

If so, are they at least 3 Beds, 1.5 bath, as I would think anthing smaller would be competing directly with casino hotels.

Can you imagine if a hotel tried that?

Currently I'm working as a project manager in a real estate development company in Flushing, NY on a 200-room hotel development project.

Apartments, retail, office, industrial, hotel, or self storage. 

Found a nice hotel for sale .

@Anthony Chara's tip was to ask the hotel where you are staying to circle the good neighborhoods in green and then the bad ones in red. 

We're about to do a pretty complex commercial renovation and build/convert a old hotel into a bed-and-breakfast...we're looking for funding over the next 3-months or so...SDIRA never crossed my mind.

On Booking.com, its our cabin, and two other local hotels for our immediate area, so there's hardly any competition.