Lots of on the ground opportunities here, people are moving out of the area after Hurricane Laura.If you were ever interested in this market then now is the time to drive down here.People are looking for cash only, "AS IS" deals to leave their homes.Super low home prices but bring dehumidifiers and a generator so you can salvage the water damaged homes.If any home in Calcasieu Parish Louisiana is water damaged from wind driven rains and it is not air conditioned within a month it will be a total gut to restore.

No judgement, but ability to understand future financial is your key here, nobody would help you other than your own deep dive DD.

You have to use your own judgement on whether we will have bad times and when, and how much of a downturn can you survive when you are leveraged.I always remind myself what I read in one of Kiyosaki's books, poor people work for money, rich people have money work for them.

@Lisa Rains maybe you can assist.

What kind of judgement is your main concern aka what is the fear? 

Thankfully, I'm in the desert and it doesn't rain/snow very often but every time there are clouds, I get nervous.

So if you view a property and you're interested, try and time a visit after a huge rain event.

You will generally have a harder time drawing visitors to these areas, as they are distant from the more developed parts of the island and the micro-climates in these areas are less desirable (either dense rain forest or windy and barren lava fields).And as mentioned, those areas have a bit of a reputation for being less safe, particularly for visitors (higher levels of drug use, theft, intolerance of tourists, etc.) 

In our state, when you gain others property by not allowing them to acquire information that would affect judgement of a transaction...that is theft by deception.

I don't mean to rain on your parade--it CAN be done, we did it.