The great lakes region is considered a climate heaven. 

I'm an investor and agent in Salt Lake City Utah and have had the same exact thoughts as you have.

It was previously believed that the use of an IDGT not only removed the trust assets from the decedent’s estate for estate tax purposes but also resulted in a basis adjustment to the fair market value of the trust assets on the decedent’s date of death.

up to Lake and mendocino Counties.for central valley I think less crime north of Sacramento compared to stockton and Fresno.Willliams  .. 

But you could do one on a lake. 

And any new builds are pricey, competitive, and or teardowns at this point. 30-45min from downtown it gets affordable and there are a lot of new builds like Wendell, Wake Forest, Youngsville, Fuquay Varina, those kind of suburbs.

We would like to have the property to an LLC for liability purposes and then have the LLC owned by our Family Trust for Estate Planning purposes.

Anyone having issues with their insurance company not wanting to insure properties over a certain age? I have American Family. Have 4 SHF, 2 Boats, Several cars and an Umbrella and they cancelled one of my properties ...

This is not going to work and you will be spraying money into a lake.

Interested in talking with someone with experience in Air BNB in the lakes region.