During the spring and summer, the Kern River and Lake Isabella are busy with water recreation, fishing, and hiking and in the fall and winter it slows down but they do have winter recreation in the form of skiing at Shirley Meadows so it won't be dead in the winter.

In San Diego BRRRR seems dead.

If you're dead set on buying a rental property first places like Philly, Buffalo could be good options.  

After paying off my primary home I have a ton of dead equity I could put to good use 

It has been dead on reliable with zero issues.

Unfortunately they are probably dead-on correct here. 

Hit it dead on.

This fall has been dead!

Rinse and repeat until the person is dead, then the heirs have a limited amount of time to sort out what to do with the property.

However, the things that made me question my future involvement with this unit were possible big expenditures like all the water lines being made of iron (nearing the end of their usable life before cracking on this 1960’s house), a giant tree root running through the center of the crawl space (could disrupt foundation further), or numerous large pine trees either already dead with limbs hanging or leaning over the roof that needs replacing already.