Can anyone suggest beach markets in SC and/or GA that allow STRs and cash flow with 20% down?

Purchase price: $785,000 Cash invested: $156,000 Short term vacation rental in Panama City Beach.

I'm originally from Kentucky and moved to Palm Beach County to pursue real estate full time.

Purchase price: $1,400,000 Cash invested: $400,000 First tier beach property on Cape San Blas.

Not all beaches are created equal.  

Your VA loan will be crucial to your real estate investing growth, especially since it affords you the potential opportunity to own more than one property, depending on your overall allotment.For active military personnel, that conundrum of where to invest and where you will end up is always part of the issue that sometimes causes analysis paralysis so it's great you have one in VA Beach already.

With regard to the proximity to the beach, I tend to have a beach distance of 15 min or 5 mile rule, whichever is less. 

We've decided that we'll likely look for something somewhere in Guanacaste because we want beach AND proximity to airport (LIR).We go each August to visit her family. 

I am looking to grow the portfolio to short term rents in Daytona Beach, Florida.  

Very happy to be in good weather and close to a beach!