I totally agree; I have hosted my fair share of travelling nurses in my spots near the Big USC Keck Medical Center, but I also have hosted a couple times now, construction type of people in town for a project, Egyptian tourists one time (not sure how that happened), a professor in town for something or other, one couple who were nurses but who were not actually working as nurses when they stayed there, they were in school of some sort.

We have a piece of property in a tourist place.

I am looking at a condotel investment in a tourist resort, which for all intents and purposes would be treated as a STR and I do not plan to personally use the unit.

You are required to report worldwide income.You would have been required to report the income even if you did not get a 1099-K from airbnb.Depreciation is reported diferently for properties that you own abroad.If you have more than $10,000 in US equivalent, you would be required to report the bank account info to the US.There is likely a US - Kenya tax treaty that you may need to familiarize yourself withYou may get a foreign tax credit for taxes paid to Kenya(to avoid double taxation)

Do you know how many US tourists go to the Dominican Republic each year?

It might be beneficial if you can find a realtor that sells STR and see what they can tell you about the tourists that come to the area.

Even those data are not as extensive as what US offers for example but that does not throw the fact that Curaçao is a good or bad investment Island.The market has seen a overall growth of 4,9% for the last decade and the island is a tourist Island that has not develop in his full tourist potential yet.

I've been doing some research and apparently the locals even avoid the beach side during tourist season and I've fallen in love with the little town called Duck, NC or even Corolla where you need a 4x4 to get there

We still have demand, but things slowed down a little in the past few months because of Covid, and because this is not the peak summer season.After Covid, landlords also started to consider different types of short-term renters like traveling nurses instead of just focusing on tourists or city visitors.I like your plan, especially that Tacoma is allowing two ADUs in one house with no-home owner-occupancy requirements.Feel free to reach out if you got questions or comments.

Some towns may have restrictions on short term rentals, but for the most part, specifically in the ski towns that you mentioned, Vermont depends on tourist revenue to survive and I have not heard further news restricting rentals.