I do look at other markets in the US, and all of them are tourism related, but Bozeman is the best. 

With the tourism of Moab, you could probably make a lot more cash flow on a STR than a LTR.

There are a lot of hot spots in Florida where there is good appreciation, rent growth and high tourism.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/loui...

The best short-term rental markets are those that have demand for tourism-- having tourist attractions, national parks, beaches, mountains, etc. 

After following BP for a year, I've been trying to figure out how to leverage my marketing skills as an in to REI. This morning at the gym I listened to podcast episode 508 with Carrot.com founder Trevor Mauch. It lit...

Look what happens with Las Vegas every time the gaming, hospitality and tourism industries crashes. 

Walmart, on the other hand, has a beta of 0.48, which also makes sense because even in a downturn people are going to continue to need groceries, and since Walmart has cheap products, people will continue shopping there, which means Walmart won't experience as severe of a downturn as the average company.If you apply that to a real estate market, I would think that cities with high tourism have high multifamily betas (maybe Nashville as an example).

FL lives on tourism.

we are placed right in between two other "trendy" towns that have a fair amount of tourism (although this town does not especially attract tourists the neighboring ones do) and we would be walking distance to the restaurants.I really like your thought on the mobile being 50 years old in 12 years though. good thing for me to ponder.