Virtually all properties are similar to this one.I will say that I was also a highly paid Programmer when I graduated College in 1997 and didn't need the Cash Flow to put food on the table.BUT, I will also say that if you don't need the cash flow, you can get into these kinds of lucrative properties.You can't just do the numbers.

Virtually any emerging market would work.

Feel free to reach out anytime as you get started and start to investigate which investing strategy will suit you best.As I am sure you are finding out there are tons of free information in the forums on virtually any real estate topic you can think of and the podcasts are great too. 

For example, I was reading about this company called Seeable, they “use high-accuracy mobile mapping techniques to create augmented reality & virtual reality building visualization apps.”

The new tax law includes the virtual elimination of the deduction of state income tax.  

I only ask because this island is one of only a handful of communities anywhere in the US not accessible by car, so the answer is virtually un-Google-able.  

Commerical brokerage if you put the YEARS in apprencticing when you come out the other end you can be quite successful.. virtually every commercial broker I know personally who has been doing this for years is quite successful.. this may mean starting as a leasing agent.. etc.. but Joel knows this far better than I do.Just giving you some things to think about.

This probably works better here because we have a virtually unlimited supply of desert to develop so land cost is normalized. 

Whats nice in this environment with Virtual Assistants, you can do some pretty neat stuff with out keeping a really heavy overhead on you.

@Trace Garretson Setup keyword alerts here on BP and start virtually networking with people.