It's my understanding that most golf courses are owned, operated and maintained by an associated resort or hotel development.

Find the big players in Columbus on BP.Add the keywords "Columbus" and/or "Ohio" to the BP keyword alerts.

In addition, Seattle/King County is an absolutely booming job market with no signs of slowing down (first and foremost because it is THE job market for cloud computing expertise and increasingly becoming THE market for AI expertise as not only national players but international Juggernauts locate there...those two tech spaces are the future of everything for the foreseeable future).So my unscientific data point of one (two really, my highly educated wife agrees with me) tells me that NJ is going to flatline and maybe even decrease while you will gain absolutely zero benefit if you hope for that kind of market softening in Seattle Metro.

I am currently looking into stepping out and investing in a vacation rental in Myrtle Beach, SC but the townhouse is contracted through the Sands Resort. 

I was hoping to acquire some land to build a retirement resort, but it seems many of these tropical countries are heading towards lease instead of freehold purchase. 

If you resort to CC to collect rent on multiple occasions, you're creating a ticking time bomb.

May I ask--is your property in a gated community/resort complex/etc (somewhere that would have their own cleaning staff)?

Find a partner (identify local players; REI groups; BP) who will expect something of you. 

My last resort would be a LTR and essentially break even.

It's mostly smaller resorts for tourists but I also do long term rentals in there for select locals.