I'm looking at possibly purchasing raw land in a popular vacation spot and putting a "tiny house" or building a small cabin for a short-term/vacation rental.  

I know this is a popular strategy, but I've heard MD is not very favorable when it comes to lease options. 

In my eyes more listings mean company is more popular and could provide more properties for sale. 

   $50 sf is another popular number for a rehab work. 

I was leaning more towards black appliances since it will (likely) be more aesthetically durable; especially considering that since it's a student population and we will likely not have one long-term tenant.The flip side is that SS is popular and I think students will appreciate having SS (as long as it shows nice) and we might be able to squeeze a few extra rent dollars marketing the place.Thanks in advance for your input.

Higher home prices are putting a dent in the popularity of house flipping in metro Denver, according to a new study from Trulia.About 4.5 percent of metro Denver home sales involved flips in the third quarter of 2015, down from 5.7 percent of sales in the same quarter a year earlier, Trulia found.That ranked Denver 51st out of 85 metro areas that Trulia looked at for flips and was among the bigger declines found in any metro area.In fix-and-flips, an investor buys a home that needs repairs at a discount then resells the property at a higher price after fixing it up as quickly as possible.Trulia puts Denver in a group of cities, along with Los Angeles and San Diego, where escalating home prices have raised the risk for rehabbers and cooled speculative activity.Some flipped homes are getting pushed into more expensive price tiers, which means they take longer to sell....http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_29533885/hou...

If you are not sure, one of the more popular ones is the Thur lunch (weekly) meetup at Big Daddys (I-183 / Burnett) which is all purpose.  

Western North Dakota is already feeling it.The cities you listed are fairly popular, and diverse cities. 

Here is my opinion, which won't be popular. 

More so Briarwood, as I've notice the popularity in that area has increased in the last 2-3 years.