Boom.  

It is also a great tourist destination and has been booming over last several years. 

There have been cases where LOs swear up and down that they have a perfect file, granted not the strongest borrower, but nonetheless it's approved when the address is "TBD" with a certain zip code, all the way through formal underwriting, whole 9 yards, and then you replace "TBD" with "123 Main Street" with that same zip code and everything else (nothing changed but "TBD" was replaced with an actual street address), and boom you get the "ineligible" mark of death.

N of Austin, can represent a heavy cash flow and no appreciation area, whereas, Central Austin, may represent a quicker appreciation, say something as strong as 6% per year over the past decade (including '08/'09 recession to recent population boom) but has no cash flow.

Louis that is in a housing boom!

And I should manage it as MY money, not a freebie, not a gift, but something that is mine.They want to use a HML on an asset they want to fix and keep, and hope to refi...but with a HML for at least 6 months, and no experience of fix/rehab they likely will not come out ok, but hear it as a way to get in the game.They want to enter into a wholesale contract with no money to perform, another using other people's money thing.They want to manage a syndication, because they did real good in the real estate boom and now are real estate geniuses, kind of like selling ice cream in the Summer.

Spring Break business was booming until a few days ago.

Heck, there are places that have dropped in value from just 10 years ago during the greatest housing boom ever. 

They are tired of active yield versus passive yield NNN and don't like riding the roller coaster boom/bust cycles.

Tourism is booming there and it's indeed one of the most visited countries in the world and tourism numbers keep growing.