I just don't know anyone in their right mind that would want to move to any city on the coast in florida any more. 

Apple , Tesla, Google, Samsung amongst other Tech giant companies have chosen Austin TX as thier city.

Also because of my passion, and also because flips are really hard to find nowadays that have a good margin of more than 10% profit from the selling price.I started to do some digging in the main market that I am operating at right now and found a nice option that I liked:Find an old house in a good area in the city metro, demolish and build a new one on top of it a medium to high-end home.Why?

Scranton and Middletown look like the closest small cities and they’re both an hour away.

Even if your city is on board, I'm sure the neighbors won't be thrilled with this operation opening up in their neighborhood.

The squatting tenant in the liberal city is the bogeyman for most RE investors.

Dual City Investments has done multiple Section 721 exchanges and accepts 721 properties as capital contributions into their fund (Dual City Advantage Fund).

This is a major reasons bay area investors look in the midwest in faster growing cities. 

I'm entirely STR focused as an agent as well, and work with pretty much exclusively STR investors, so I have my finger to the pulse of the regulatory environment here in a county, city, and even neighborhood basis.

This helps give you a 30,000 over view of what a potential city/zip/street is like https://www.areavibes.com/It gives you a total livability score and this is the criteria I have come up with over time.80 and above A+78/79 A76/77 A-74/75 B+72/73 B70/71 B-68/69 C+66/67 C64/65 C-60/63 D59 and below FCheers from Fort Worth, TX