I think this borders on insanity.Take your cash (and family, though I'm in the camp that thinks kids in Vegas for vacation are not the best idea) to Vegas and gamble in the casino.

Please don't tell me we aren't successful, as we too are entrepreuners and we think we are successful in not working a 9-5 for the past 17 years, having wonderful vacations & lifestyle, raising great kids, and we are still pretty young (43,44).

I'm sure I'll get tarred and feathered for this, but I'm just returning from a long extending vacation and what a better way to get back into the fray but a healthy debate...I'd like to think that the posters on this forum "could see through the leaves for the trees" but given the media's love affair with bashing the lending industry, I can understand why...Sure loose lending guidelines, predatory lending practices and opportunistic lenders/brokers have an investment in the problem, but so do appraisers who overinflated values, borrowers that misrepresented incomes or miscalculated future earning potential and realtors that pushed the affordability envelope with the upsell---This being said, the sum total of these issues still doesn't hold a candle to the core drivers that seems to be remise from this thread.

That is where the demand is.Honestly, I am more inclined to build a vacation home and market it myself...Have started some research on that, but have a lot of work to do.

@Andy Wayne you might want to look into vacation rentals( you'd have to build cabins or other structures on the land), mobile home land rental (I have no idea the official name for this), campsite /RV parking if you decide not to sale. 

Jerry is also an investor and quickly and candidly explained vacation rental properties to me.

I would say cash out and buy more properties...you don't have enough volume with 2 properties to get the max benefits out of being buy and hold...for me I have calculated once I hit 20 doors my return outstrip my costs and the amount of work I put in...you have to figure out what that number is for you but I know that for investors I know in my area who are below 20 - 30 doors, they struggle with burnout, capex, not being able to hire staff, take a vacation...plus rates are so good right now (I remember the 90's when rates were 9%-12% ouch)

@Michael Hayworth  as a vacation rental do think people would rent that for the cowboy games... in what context would a home in that location be a vacation rental..

Use an ozone machine following directions closely of how long to completely vacate. 

It's the legal side that reaches in your pocket and can also send you on a  vacation while the other guy is in the library, then starts out making money.