I'm based in Denver but I love New Mexico and am starting to dabble down there.

I think it's important to play by the rules and don't take issue with taxation (Hawaii, New Mexico, and many other places see great Airbnb & VRBO success with those fees), but if there's a legit way to play around the rules that's something worth looking at too.

I work on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico in the oil industry.

That will depend on your location, for example in New Mexico they don't make sales info public so if you don't have MLS access it's hard to pull comps and you don't know what the owner paid or what they owe on the property which is important info when you're negotiating.

but this is new mexico, so its a possibility.  

Hey @Shane Woods I live in Denver and spend a fair amount of leisure time in New Mexico.

I'm working on a deal in New Mexico which is not a popular market so it's been challenging to find a financial partner that makes sense.

I New Mexico born and bread, but have lived in Arizona (Mostly Flag, also PHX) for a number of years.

Maybe Boise Idaho home price would rise after some of us move there.Here's the database:https://layoffdata.com/data/ Population in those states is barely 1 mil if that.. .. so probably % wise pretty close to CA. ya but under the radar we have cold war now between the CA corporation vs the CA (socialist) goverment.while the socialist goverment increase min. wage, the corp started laying off people even in blue collar industry, so this layoffs has been widespread so far.take a look at it here https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/08/wxay-j08.html in CA there're 3M minimum-wage worker under poverty line ....also Mexico is having the nicest weather I should say LOL maybe we have to cross border to get good job+weather lol

However overall international tourism went down more than 50% because of the strong dollar and weaker Yen also, a lot more people from the US going to Mexico/Europe because of the affordability.