Popular vacation destinations, like Florida's Panhandle (Destin, Panama City Beach, etc.), are worth looking into because of the year-round demand for rentals.

. $1.5MThis property is located just a block and a half from the beach in Carlsbad, making it a prime spot.

How will you manage them while trying to be "passive" and sitting on a beach sipping Pina Coladas?

5397 Orange ave Long Beach 90805I'm guessing it's Free and Clear?

I discussed the impact of our beach STRs in San Diego (is there a more drive to destination with Los Angeles (12.6m), Tijuana (2.3m), Orange County (3.6m), San Diego (3.3m) all within a couple hour drive of our STRs?)

Then the Disney area may be a good fit.But if you watched some youtube channel with someone, who seems to get a deceitfully large percentage of their info from selling courses, preaching the dream of massive upfront cashflow that you can then leverage into another down payment next year and so on while exponentially increasing your wealth so you can quit your job and live on the beach in Aruba, Disney is the wrong market for you unless you're willing to invest substantially into super tippy top end theming.The good news if you're in the former camp is that prices have come down quite a bit here compared to most of the country with all of the saturation/competion. 

I would prefer some green areas (but should be closer to beach) so that it still is attracted to STR. 

 Read the description of this condo doing it at the beach where I vacation, is this how you're doing it?  

Mine were: 216 Earl Street, Daytona Beach, FL, purchase price $325,000 and $289,0001189 Jimmy Ann Drive, Daytona Beach, FL purchase price $89,000 and $135,000There were 4 contracts, two for each address with the different prices, had the seller's name and his name as the buyer.  

The property is 20 mins from San Diego proper and 30 from the beach.