Nobody said North Carolina! Opportunities abound, and the weather is mild. Everybody seems to be flocking here. Lots of buildings going up. Lots of road construction too.Used to be easier to get around. Too many people already if you wanna know the truth. It's actually a terrible place. Forget I even brought it up!
@Jeff Bousquet If you like Isle of Palms you should come to Seabrook Island. It's cheaper to rent, beaches are less crowded (6 miles of private beach), 30 minutes from the airport and its the same distance into Charleston. I'm working on a STR now but if you are interested let me know.
Hello Jonathan Hulen. Sounds like me when I made my first trip around the World 50 years ago. I grew up in SF Bay Area and was a surfer in Santa Cruz, but, I love the Tropics. So, it was lush, tropical mountains into the sea with rivers and lakes and surf. I ended up three hours East of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. You have to get around the Politics and look forward to more good weather and food and things to do. If you learn how to make money on your laptop, trading REIT's or the other Markets, then you don't have to do more than buy a fixer upper Home and use the Tax rules to Flip it and move the money onto the next houses within 90 days to use it Tax-free. I think as a Minimalist as far as Real Estate is concerned. Use the Tax-free and Tax-deferred rules to make more with less.