The only time you can be certain a city won't totally ban STR, is the heavy vacation markets, to where they would take a hit if the tourism left.

I totally agree about Airbnb saturation, and with Tripadvisors'/Flipkey's massive customer service issues on both the renter and owner side, not having a solid property management company in place could be devastating.That being said, nothing can replace natural beauty, ease of travel to and from is incredibly easy from anywhere on the east coast, so the allure will remain.One thing I will say that would most certainly and quite seriously hamper tourism in PR, and pretty much most of the Caribbean, a lifted embargo with Cuba.

We get a bit of tourism in Bend Oregon and Im in a nice part of town across from a big park, so I think there may be a good opportunity to do vacation rentals.

Study vacation rental markets, find one with a long history of tourism, and where regulations are already in place (opposite of Nashville where I also used to try to do STR :) )  3.

But it sat on the market because it was listed too high and we were in the middle of a pandemic and tourism to Costa Rica had lowered quite a bit.  

My wife was 9 months pregnant and I joined the Army during Viet Nam, my son was born three days after I joined,so he cost me less than ten bucks for the hospital!

As Ryan said, we have quite a few STR only communities with amenities and locations that are made for tourism and are zoned specifically for rentals.

Generally speaking, short-term rental rates in Thailand are low compared to other countries with a lot of tourism, as are luxury hotel rates so how much would anyone pay to rent one of these minuscule shoebox condos, which they're building by the boatload it seems?

Oh and I do not mind the weather (growing up with a vietnam vet you kind of have to rough it) casuse I am looking forward to the BIG guy look (LOL).

My first husband was reported MIA in Vietnam in 1969, and was missing until the war ended in 1973, at which time their helicopter along with their remains were located and  returned home to American soil.