., the same downside...might as well bear the upside of self-insurance at that point.

I am considering purchasing in Big Bear Lake to use as a vacation property 3-4x per year (I live in LA) and to Air BNB the rest of the time.

I am looking to buy a 3 bed 2 bath home in sugarloaf area in Big Bear City ca.

Are there parts of the city or zip codes that are (generally) more or less likely to have foundation problems due to the type of soil/clay/stone houses are built on? 

-Getting outside the real estate focus a bit here, but there are a ton of resources out there for figuring ranch profitability:https://extension.sdstate.edu/...https://texnat.tamu.edu/https://www.grainews.ca/livest...Obviously ranch profitability has several variables (rainfall, forage types and health, soil health, cattle prices, feed/hay prices, etc.), it seems to me one of the biggest factors that are controllable is the initial investment in land.

How is the market for STR's in Big Bear Lake, CA?

As I studied the NHD report, under the Geologic section, the expansive soils and subsidence sections are marked "in high" what is this mean?

The timber areas are often is mountainous areas where the soil depth is shallow and lots of bedrock underlayment, not exactly good areas to perk. 

Even without that, we have an INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to keep and bear arms.

The soil in the yard tested at super fund clean up levels.