Fun, eh?

Renting in these areas with a roommate or two will likely be less expensive than PITI in the 'less fun' suburbs.If you do decide buying when you move down here, I'd take a few trips and spend a week or so down here to help narrow the search.

But, it will be an authoritative "it depends".Tax write offs on their own are fun for speculation, however, a high income individual has other things going on that affect the answer.  

That sounds like it's going to be such a fun project.

Fun speculative conversation.

Had some fun times dancing in Phoenix.

He harrasses most newcomers to BP... we're more than happy to have new REI folks join in on the fun and success!

Towns/cities hate them because there are no proprety taxes yet they chew up services for things like more school kids, etc.I'm sure there are deals to be had out there in parks for people that are looking. 

Just a few things to start to chew on, hopefully this was helpful.

The former coworker can then refi after completion and get most of their money back out so he can do something close to a BRRR on these deals which was even more fun for him.When he refi's to say 375k, he'll be out of pocket a total of 25k on the deal.