I am located in New England, so if there are any glaring things to be made aware of prior to purchasing a southern home, or a home located near the gulf, or local airbnb regulations, general landlord friendliness, ease of hiring a management company/cleaners, necessity of flood insurance, etc, please feel free to let me know.

Perhaps the friendliness is not warranted and I just tell them what I need to do, but I don't want to hear more of that offensive talk towards me when I'm there.

I am originally from Atlanta and the combination between the nature parks, cleanliness, and the friendliness of locals quickly convinced me to make the move more permanent in the Gulf Shores and Orange Beach markets. 

I honestly haven't had to evict, so I can't comment on the landlord or tenant friendliness of that process, but overall, I would say these cities lean landlord friendly.

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The friendliness of Denver has made me so glad I moved back West (from CA originally).In commercial RE I'm currently putting together market analysis reports for a comm. bldg. downtown on Market St, 25 acre site in Boulder, and a 200 acre site out past Brighton.

@Joseph Konrad So far, so good on friendliness!

This actually makes it shockingly easy to vet a lender for REI-friendliness.

Take the time to evaluate locations based on long-term factors such as population growth, overhead costs, and the landlord-friendliness of the city.

@Kera Takacs as Adrian has mentioned, what Seattle lacks in Landlord Friendliness it makes up for in development opportunities - the best STR's tend to take advantage of the favorable ADU & DADU codes to get multiple rentable structures on a single lot.When you hear investors S**t on Seattle, be sure to ask why.