@Rick Reeder We may not have the Pacific Ocean, but I'm happy to save the money and book a flight versus paying the CA higher taxes.

I always suggest your own backyard and maybe 1 other market that is an easy drive or flight. 

Almost half of that area is in a floodplain and of the quarries that have decommissioned, depending on how old they are, the City might not let you fill them as they now offer a significant amount of flood storage (unless you create that storage elsewhere).Also, the City has bought out some properties because of air flight noise, mostly along Jet Lane/Patton Avenue. 

My uncle lives in the Denver, CO area, has taken Gino's back home on plane flights and I think might have even had some shipped out there once or twice! 

There’s plenty of work up there and Covid and flight from the city has driven a lot of money up that way.

I found the PM trying to convince me in several ways that I should pay for the Travel Interruption Insurance (cancelled flights, COVID, etc). 

@Del Crockett, while I don't have any specific areas to recommend (you can find good deals in many areas of the country), I would recommend that you try to settle on a place that is easy to get to (direct flight or easily driveable) and ideally have some ties to.One or both of these simply make it easier to visit when you need to. 

You may have pushed them up against the wall and triggered fight or flight.

My last flight to Orlando allowed me to finish the last 10 or so chapters from The Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book.

Often times in small claims, you have to self represent, so being out of state means you have to fly in, and with current costs of flights, you may be out more for the flight than the potential settlement.Online reviews can go a long way too, assuming you have in writing that they will pull permit and didn't.