On the other hand, in high season, we keep our prices high at premium and we slowly start reducing them 3-5 weeks prior to the check-in.

Check it out on Zillow!

As far as up and coming, definitely check out Baytown.

Thanks for the info, I'm definitely going to check this out. 

Check out https://foreclosuresdaily.com/.

Investing out of state can totally work, but you'll likely need to make trips to Florida to check out properties and manage things.

Also, if you setup a servicing company to manage the payments (usually like $25-35 a month), they can setup an escrow account for taxes and insurance as well and cut a check to her Trust bank account each month.

I keep seeing the Red Stick REIA group pop on here for all my Baton Rouge folks, definitely need to check that out. 

We may need to make another trip to go check that market out.

It’s not easy it’s not fast, but the checks are huge and if you’re serious about doing this strictly to becoming an investor, I would go all hands on deck making all your commission checks go towards your goal using it all to be up your credit, save and put into an income property.