To invest in the island the investor must love the island,the lifestyle and the culture. 

Our Hawaiian culture is pushed aside to make way since 1959 and away we go with Americanization wow!

(and about 20 min from home)2) Check up on my first order of product directly from a Chinese factory (unrelated)3) Lead a meeting and deliver our analysis to a team of executives and board of directors at a multi-billion bank (relatively quick drive from home)4) Follow-up on proposed delivery of message for even bigger bank (from home)5) Perform inspection for 2 duplexes in contract for close just after end of April. (15min drive from home)6) Go on BP and check up with awesome investors7) Crack open a beer.

The culture shock is huge. 

I'm excited to see how WFH culture changes and grows the STR industry here in WA and elsewhere...

Here in Seattle, Floating Homes have been a part of Seattle Culture (Sleepless in Seattle and many more films feature them!)

As others have stated, it truly depends on location, culture at the apartment community, market trends in the area, etc.Class C properties typically offer a clear upside with the right business plan.

@Cody Barna It's a no brainer for restaurants, since Yuma have a great diversity of cultures which drives so many different styles of food!

Furthermore, some cable companies will insist on using their own run of their own wiring to the actual cable box, partly because they don't want to trouble shoot something not working which may include a piece of wire not put in by them that may or may not work, but also they want to make sure they know how many splits you have, to how many TV sets, as in some locales they can charge you more if you split the signals and use cheap Chinese knock off converters and descramblers.

The Govt and culture of those days was much different and not so frightening to have a 'temporary' Govt overreach.