Hi @Yolanda Chambers -- best bet would be to reach out to a broker in the area.

My 40's are barely on my radar yet, but I do imagine I'll have a chamber like Scrooge McDuck so I can dive through piles of gold coins for exercise by then. 

This is less likely, but some places like Bentonville, AR and Comal County, Texas give short-term rental regulation authority over to tourism agencies, recreational districts, or chambers of commerce. 

I just Googled and looks like there is an all-digital GayPages & a LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce in Austin popped up so maybe there is one there too?   

@Andrew Chambers This is wrong. 

AOA.com and https://caanet.org/ and chamber of commerce to see what you can do to fight itbut you can also fight it locallyThey're also spreading to Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Irvine, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston and other cites They're trying to fight it in Long Beach and Santa Ana now.

Is there no Chamber of Commerce, or Economic Development Corp, or even Rotary?

A great assignment would be to require them to attend a local meetup (preferably RE-related, but Chamber of Commerce or something like that would work too) and write some kind of report or something.

It’s not necessarily an echo chamber that repeats what I am thinking, but more of an immediate sounding board with opposing viewpoints to help you with your analysis.  

@Don Chambers great postLots of good points made by the members of BP community and provides a great learning opportunity for newbie and experienced investors.