The rental income can cover the mortgage and operating expenses, potentially allowing you to live for free or at a reduced cost.Vacation Rentals in Emerging Locations: Instead of investing in popular tourist destinations, some investors focus on emerging locations.

Once the business is up and running, I would also like to invest in one or two vacation home properties as destinations for my family and friends.

Thinking in the $2MM-$3MM range.What are some of the best destinations with sufficient rental demand to justify a relatively larger acquisition?  

I learned that discipline from Mel Madden a long time ago (paraphrased): The key is to step back and not look at events as '100% waste' of time, but part of the earning experience as you travel on the path to your destination.

Take the time to fly out to the destination of choice to invest having several meetings setup.

Not your typical destination STR market, but for the same fundamentals that it makes a great LTR location, it is SOLID. 

My understanding of Destin it's too expensive and returns aren't great.

Atlanta Population GrowthOver the last five years, the top 10 Moving Destinations list consistently finds Atlanta at the top.Atlanta is a rapidly growing city, and its metropolitan area exceeded 5.5 million people for the first time in 2013.

Airbnb just released Columbus is the most popular destination this year for labor day weekend - https://614now.com/2022/614-li...

What I'm seeing is that folks that had bigger vacations booked elsewhere are still vacationing...they're just vacationing smarter and going to a driving destination.