I guess it’s all about finding your own personal happy medium.

If you have enough cash and time I would suggest you try to buy a small- medium multifamily property cash in a cheap city, remodel and rent out for max rents.

Also, Cathedral City just put a moratorium on new STR permits.Palm Springs has medium to strict regs, but they allow STR's.

Its in a medium to upperclass part of town and is guaranteed to be able to rent to a blue collar family for ~1300 and bring in cash flow.

However, her boyfriend sleeps over on the weekend and has a medium sized dog. 

When I looked further, the same data showed Illinois had a medium or high level of outbound population since 1977.

To me, this is a "end of the world as we know it" investment, and you would want to have some medium of exchange in small enough units to use for day to day purchases.

In fact my next move in the immediate future is going to be a standard width Sprinter conversion or the like with a generator, potty/shower, bed, a place to store my surfboard/s and bicycles and a good supply of necessities.

It is true that people have found new mediums to get referrals.

Tampa is a very multi-Opportunistic market. a lot of people are successful with long-term, medium term, and short term, rental investment properties.