I'm leaving mid-June for Europe and plan on attending a friend’s wedding late May.

I see some come with a facial, wedding make up business cards to boost their income.

Without appreciation, this kind of investing is a sham.So my clients in my very FIRST 3 bedroom/2bath home in Dublin, California is attracting a lot of wedding goers, some mix of business travelers, and families on vacation.   

this is a common theme of course on BP its pretty much every day.and you pretty much have all those that live in a market target a market .I like @James Wise cut and paste responses he does .. he nails it well and its worth cut and pasting every time someone ask the same question that has been asked 1000 times.I like to Add James that when going out of market.. also if you simply buy at the median price points of any given MSA your buying in an area were you have a lot of homeowners buying generally... so you get a mix of cash flow and appreciation and or more important you have a defined exit IE you can sell to a homeowner as opposed to buy at the bottom of the price point and the only out is to an investor..And Frankly your company is kind of a unicorn in the US.. there are not many companies like yours that specialize in reselling these assets for individual owner/investors. 

It is full of tourists, the #2 destination in the U.S. for weddings.

Then do it by comps.We live in Charlottesville,  which is an upscale destination for wine tours, UVA alumni reunions, weddings, and tourists visiting the local history.   

My wife and I have the goal of building a wedding barn on our acreage. 

I’m looking into using this as our primary residence as a newly weds (will get married in May) and will be our starter home.

While I am new and probably not the best person to offer proper real estate investing advice at this point, I can tell you that one of the common themes I hear from talking to many successful investors echoes what @Jay Helms said above.

@Jimmy Dudley  its sort of depends on where you live and closing customs.for instance on the west coast there is no such thing as a wet closing.. or having all parties come to the closing table.. simply never happens.so when we sell something here I usually go in and sign ( if I want to I can also just have them e mail docs and I sign and they send a courier to my office.. )this is done 2 to 10 days before closing.. then the buyers come in the 3 days before usually because they have their 3 day right of recession ( owner occ mortgages)  then the loan package goes back to the lender.. then the title company has to record in the morning.. and has to send recording numbers to the lender then the lender funds.. then the next day once this is done title company will cut checks or wire proceeds.. for us 100% wires we never get checks.. its always kind of comical when I am sitting in my office in Oregon closing a deal in some east coast state and the closing attorney sends me an email with the time of the closing and wants to know if that time is good for me like I am really going to be there..