Occupancy levels are high on the Panhandle  year round, especially since many tourist from the mid-land and southern states can drive here for their family vacation rather than having to fly like they would have to for some of the parts of FL further south.

Not to mention, with quantitative easing & the fed lowering interest rates, they're trillions of negative-yielding bonds worldwide as a result.

@Michael JohnI am curious if your “flee” theories would also apply to cities like Las Vegas, Houston, Minneapolis, the hundreds of college towns, tourist towns in America.

You need a GREAT cleaning service that can be your eyes and ears and restock items for you.Put all this in a spreadsheet and run the numbers based on what you think you can gets in rents based on comparable s as described about.You may find you are barely breaking even or worse for a lot more work.If you are in a highly desirable tourist area then you may be be able to make money.It is a labor of love and we get to use our place some so that helped in our decision.You can use your spreadsheet to run different scenarios to help you evaluate potential properties to see if you can find a place where the numbers work for you.

Many of us accountants have clients worldwide.

The short-term rental market in Arizona, particularly in popular tourist destinations like Phoenix and Scottsdale, has been growing rapidly in recent years.

First it is harder cashflow in Hawaii than some of the other states, then often times the condos are on a land lease which makes it less desirable from a purely investment perspective, finally HI (from my limited understanding) has enacted increasingly strict STR regulations in many of the major tourist hubs.

The only thing that irritated me a little was tourists coming to Schlitterbahn.

Las Vegas will be one of 11 data centers worldwide.

I'm using my own house right now as a short term/vacation rental, and we're not in a tourist destination by any stretch of the imagination.