In addition, I have been lucky enough to find a cheap lease in downtown Montreal on Peel (high traffic/tourist area) where I paid off the tenant (14 year lease rent controlled).

A lot of grandparents coming to see their new grand-babies for a month or so, a lot of Garden-of-the-Gods tourists, and a lot of families visiting Air Force cadets.

It feels like a great area for short term rentals what with the big university, and the tourists coming down just to check out the cute town. 

I am in a prime area in Miami, FL lots of tourist in and out, so, I think it will be fun and interesting, I'll keep you posted here, and give you discount, so you BPers can come down to sunny Miami :)))

The idea dawned on me that I could possibly rent a condo or apartment in a nice area of Miami (close to the areas where the tourist come for like the beach, downtown, bayside, brickell, wyndwood) and actually rent it out on Airbnb in hopes of making enough money to pay the lease and then some as Zeona mentions she did in the past.

Would prefer the referrals are NOT generic buyers agent but someone who has lived on the island 5+ years, knows the price history of properties, knows where the tourists will want to rent, etc., etc. 

Destin is a different entity but some military does live there but tourist traffic and higher prices tend to keep it off the table.

If I take the property for myself as a location for one of my spas, then maybe (the town has a brisk tourist trade).

@John Underwood , @Michael Greenberg this property has not much returning guests, first because it has less than a year history (don't know yet), 2nd because it is in the city, most guests are "tourists", average 3/4 nights visiting (mostly discovering) attractions such as Hollywood, Universal Studios, LA Zoo, Disney,...

They are in tourist areas.