Major employers, colleges, hospitals, military, tourism? 

Tourism and weekend stays are more popular in those markets as compared to the others listed, due to the lake and Guadalupe River.

It is STR friendly and thrives on tourism.

On Quora, you check off a bunch of topics you're interested in and get presented with a list of questions, then can pick and choose which to answer.Do you want answers from someone on a real estate forum, or someone picking your question out of a list about sandwiches, real estate, breeding toy poodles, gender politics, and Canadian tourism?

TONS of tourism, mountains, skiing, snowmobiling, hiking, four-wheeling out in that area plus its about a half hour from Spokane, WA which is a 250K population city.  

In my opinion it would be a safe bet to choose an area that has both tourism and business.

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While I am not sure what Whitestown's stance is, but I bet the smaller towns that are a little further from Indy will be very open to AirBNB and other such services as it creates more traffic and tourism in their areas.

I have no idea what tourism is like in your market, but you should be worried about how many tourists you get at all times of year, and use that to calculate vacancy factor.

You might have to embrace the suck and pay the $1900 or he could put a lien on the property.