My wife and I are moving to Virginia Beach area for work and we are wanting to Airbnb our home!

During our monthly market study, Marion Oaks (Ocala) consistently stands out as the area with the highest demand for new construction housing.Below are some of the markets we analyze, along with their average months of housing supply: - Palm Bay: 3.4 months - North Port: 4 months - Port Charlotte: 5.4 months - Marion Oaks: 2.2 months - Silver Springs: 2.8 monthsStudy Criteria: Single-Family Homes Built in 2022 or later, 1400-2400 sqft.

The roof itself was repaired/silvered by the seller a few weeks before I acquired.

They gave the rental income cap rate of beachfront properties, but gave the avg price of a homes two to five miles from the beach. 

Sell and move to Costa Rica on the beach. 

Quote from @Mackaylee Beach: Welcome to BiggerPockets.

Basically AirDNA makes my thesis and I prove it against real time available data on those sites.I am not an expert in Destin but Tampa area is a similar beach market and small condo's struggle as you are competing with hotels to an extent. 

Tax reasons, lower cost of living, wife is Brazilian and has friends already living in Orlando area, beaches and most cities are within a few hours drive. 

I have invested a total of $285K in... a beach front lot 2016 and beach front condo 2017; both in Brazil.

I sell real estate to STR investors in a beach market, and one of the main strategies I tell them about (and that I also use myself) is to have a new 4-point inspection and a new wind mitigation report done periodically and to reshop insurance with a few BROKERS.In Florida, these inspections are only good for 1 and 5 years, respectively, so you MUST get new ones--especially if you have had a new roof, added hurricane clips to an existing roof, or replaced your wiring, HVAC, water heater, etc.Also in FL, insurance companies come and go, so there is no need to stick with the same one and just take it when they try to bend you over and raise your rates.