This city’s citizens have an amazing amount of hubris, and as much as we love to beat on it sometimes, it’s an absolutely gorgeous city and we don’t take kindly to people from CA beating on it for us ;).

It's not impossible to invest out of state...you just need a good team that has a lot of experience with assisting out-of-state investors. p.s. we were in Oxnard not too long ago. great spot ;) 

Tons of development and all of the "cool" spots are migrating to this area, especially as downtown and Rainey get the soul drained out of them by generic high-rises. 

—> “Spots” that code enforcement mostly ignored?

We have found that the calculators on BP are pretty much spot on as long as you put in good data and have used them on several property purchases.So the question is, if you run the numbers and the analysis shows a negative cash flow, what is the basis for buying that property? 

The properties are gorgeous with amazing furniture and space.

You really can't go wrong with FL as Emerald Coast is another attractive spot for STRs.

Someone can have an awesome spot to host their meetups and I’ll finally get to know some other local investors.

It doesn't take long to learn how to spot a good deal.5.

But perhaps the more people read posts like yours the more people will start to be able to spot these scam lenders.