I'm in a drive to beach market so I'm on it but I would think college towns, mountains etc. might be similar.

Consider a market that you visit often, have family in, went to college at, spent time in the past.You will have a better sense of what the good / bad parts of town are compared to a city you never visited.Best of Luck!

More so that it is uncommon and throws most smaller town contractors into a loop of uncomfortable bidding.

Now in Northern CA when the Santa Rosa fire burnt down 3k plus homes nothing was done there and when the Paradise city fire burnt down the entire town of I did not see anything like this..

A couple of issues you need to be aware of are any ordinances that are in your town or coming up.

@Kyle Kivinski Pleasure to meet you and welcome to town, brother!

Talk to all of them and see which ones you like, fly to town and meet them, look at some examples and numbers on current deals. 

So, consider the source when receiving advice from out of town contributors. 

For example I am near old town alexandria and the businesses are 200 year old row homes and there is no place to put ramps to get in establishments and door openings are not wide enough, but that is because they also could never comply. 

We are really worried about lack of demand being a continued issue since our town may not even open our lake this summer due to storm contamination 🥲