Something that has always steered me away from those rural areas, is that the economies rely SO heavily on single companies, industries, etc...A bad example that I could give you is Delta, Ut.

Or heavily reliant on contingencies? 

Properties over 5 units are evaluated heavily on the occupancy rates.

A lady in the building department at the City of Oceanside informed me we would have to sign something with the city attorney's office stating that our ADU would not be used for STR.If you research ADU's in California you will find that they are being pushed so heavily to address the lack of housing in the state so most of the cities are aiming at that intent and are doing a lot of follow-up by checking the STR sites for violators.

We are licensed and heavily insured for all the services we offer.

This, of course, depends heavily on your end goal.

From what I can tell, you can find deals on heavily distressed properties.

This particular area heavily used FHA loans, so I had to wait the required 90-day FHA Holding Period before I could resell.

Tulsa is pretty heavily based on oil and gas, though not completely.

This is day one of real estate law in law school and heavily taught on all state bars.