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. 

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?

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

Needs to be more inspiring and modern.

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

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

(Mass Govt should be giving experienced landlords (5 years operating with at least one unit at profit as a buy and hold) zero down loans to house these people (in areas they currently live in--so they can stay close to friends and family), and free money to fix up the Brockton type area homes to modern standards inside. 

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.

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