I had my parents renting it, now they are in nursing home.

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.

Do you know if renting to travel nurses falls under STR rules? 

I dunno, maybe it's because guys like Clayton Morris were on Youtube saying crap like Nurses will rent these houses or something that all these California dudes think we're just a bunch of Midwestern simpletons or somethin.

Quote from @Cat Bauer: This is a new space for me but my new property  is between two hospitals that utilize traveling nurses. 

For many occupations the reason is salary - in Greenville, SC school nurses are paid less than 50% of what they earn where you live.

I just joined bp hoping that I would get more info and help even before I start with REI.My husband and I work full time as a registered nurse in NY but we are both tired of living paycheck per paycheck.We got our SFH thru FHA Loan 9 yes ago and now we're paying our monthly mortgage $3,980/month.We got our house for $440k and now our balance is around $380k.As per Zillow the value of our property now is $420k.We would like to try on Multi-family rentals to improve our income and to have a safety net in the future..If you're in our place what would you do to get started in RE?

There are always military doctors, nurses and tourists wanting STR's in the area because of work, Fiesta, conventions, and the Spurs games!

I just had a set of 4 nurses that stayed for just under 4 months.

I am a nurse and have bought this land with hard cash purely for investment purposes as I acquired the lands pretty cheap.