I also am Located in Western Washington in the Pacific Northwest.

Quote from @JD Martin: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: Quote from @Matthew Drouin: Small wine town is all I needed to hear.Seasonal tourism is usually not a great industry in which to build a sustainable business.There are probably higher and better uses of your capital near high velocity metro areas.We have small wine towns near our city in the finger lakes region of western NY.  

I am not sure of the STR rules for that, but I know SLC has not rounded the Western states curve yet and caught up to Oregon, Cali, and Washington. 

I know it feels like something when you see it on TV and self-proud activists want to bleat about bringing down bud-lite, but the total loss isn't even one percent of their annual revenue, which was about $58 billion (yes, with a "B").

I'd love to buy up some land in the Christmas or Santiago Mountains, but I love hunting for and photographing rare snakes so that's sort of a niche use haha.The Chihuahuan desert and western mountains of Texas are no joke, it is some of the most remote, unpopulated, water-starved, but breathtakingly beautiful country in the entire US.Just FYI it's not that west Texans dislike solar or wind farms... we love money!

Their online payment system doesn't recognize non traditional banks (credit unions) so your hit with $27 fee to pay with debit or have to take time out of your schedule and go to a Western Union for a $3.95 fee.

Quote from @Alyssa Wright: I would definitely recommend looking into the Western Pennsylvania market, especially for Section 8/subsidized housing!

As for insurance I deal a lot with that here in Tahoe and western Reno.

Best to you & all of Western Carolina. 

I am an investor and exploring opportunities in Western Mass.Thanks