I work remotely for a company in NYC and it's easy to travel to the city when needed... plus $250k will buy you a small-to-medium house up here... even less if you go to one of the outer villages (I'm buying a 4/1.5 2048 sqft house with a 20x40 garage for $132K in Groton right now), but the population does get less diverse going out that far. 

I'm thinking of the incident where California banned state travel to Texas and someone (Abbott I think) responded with "thats fine, we'll just keep accepting all the businesses that are running away from your oppressive tax policy".

On a Standard 203k, you can add up to 6 months of mortgage payments (PITI) into the loan if the property will not be habitable during the rehab.

From what I can tell, if you are in Vegas for work a lot, going to trade shows, meetings etc, then this could be a way to offset your travel costs.

It's all about these 80 algorithms and habits lenders track based on your behavior.

My partner and I are currently traveling and when we arrive back home in a month we are thinking about investing in a rental property.

I've had a mix of business professionals, travel nurses, and grad students, and most are pretty clean and respectful of shared spaces.One of the important things is to draft a clear rental agreement or house manual for people to follow.

Since I travel anyway I'm fine expanding my search to the entire US rather than my local area (I'm near the midwest right now).I have about 130-170k in stocks that I could pull for a deal like this. 

Setting some goals and creating habits around them helped.

As such, I assess the % of neighborhood turnover by evaluating things in person.If you want to start with looking at city data to get a grasp on macroeconomic trends and the job market, I think that's great, but once you hone in on a specific area I would suggest investing the time and money to travel out there and get a feel for specific streets before you put money into a deal.