maybe look into do a month to month lease in the off season and str in the peak season. possibly travel nurses in the off season. if you do go the str route there is many ways to automate your systems to make it easier for you so its not another job.

Here’s the detail: Last year, we were tenants looking for a very specific luxury property (we needed an owner that would permit us to sublease when we were away travelling).

The state you live in may not be a good place for this.You can always travel to states that do have good laws surrounding investor purchased tax liens.To me, anything over a 12 month redemption period is not good

In all 3 cases it was the opinion of the professional that infestation was related to recent travel and the tenants have been in the unit for 6 months. 

Usually, "family" is considered the first tier, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, your spouse, grandparents, all being in a direct linage, blood or marriage, your great uncle by marriage isn't in this group. 

Would you pay $3m for a property today, with horrible numbers, if "Johnny-Time-Traveler" stopped by and showed you inflation would run wild and dollar basically halve in next years, effecting a "inflation 2x" to asset prices? 

I live in the Raleigh area but own a medium-term rental for traveling nurses in New Hampshire.

I live in MN and own a rental in CO and Travelers insured me through a CO agent.

The MTR and STR would be more for travel nurses, corporate professionals instead of people vacationing.

My desire for STR is I travel a lot for work and feel I have learned what goes into creating experiences for people which the STR market is geared towards.