Southern Central Valley here.

I am trying to understand why the southern suburbs seem to be a bit cheaper than the northern ones.

@Lucia Rushton my reasoning is cheap/affordability realestate and it’s north texas which is cooler and a different environment than southern texas I have heard.

With the 1031, I lOVE the idealistic idea of buying some great rental properties in Southern Fla, but I'm thinking that with the 1031, I can't sell a multi unit and parlay it into anything I live in... but I suppose selling 1.2M rental properties, buying 400K ocean front condo and parlaying or 1031'ing the remaining 800K into 1.2M rental property in FLA would at least get me part of the way.

@Joseph Scaglione CT is not a tenant friendly state relative to other southern tenant friendly states.

Concerning your advice on the 4-plex, I am in Southern California and most multi families seems to go for 800K to 1.2M so it would take a significant amount of time to build up even the down payment.

We are in Southern California.

I'm leaving my hometown of Southern OR towards the end of 2021.

I'm originally from Southern California, so i'm very excited to be able to go somewhere with affordable homes!

What ever it is it will be shorter than a similar property in a south eastern state.From looking at the generic website that come up when you look up “AirBnB” statistics it seems that the hot season is 4.5 months out of the summer.It certainly does not compare to the southern states equivalent imo.it does have the potential (like some of the other comments) to have a winter potential but according to the (generic) websites mentioned above the average income for a 2BED/1BATH is ~300$ for the month :(