I did effectively point out that what you were saying was silly, by making an empirically verifiable statement of facts.

Depending on if you'd like to flip houses or grow a buy & hold empire will determine which is better.

We'd like to keep it that way, so please don't move inland from the coastal states and try to change us!

A number of empirical studies have shown post market knowledge is very weak, a broken process. 

All land has public utilities (Water,Sewer etc).Details are below:Deal #1: (2)Shoreline , WA (Near Shoreline CC)Lot Size: 28,081Acres: 0.65Zoning: R12 & R8 (Multifamily)Details: Tear down home on 1 lot and 4 vacant lots back to back.Deal #2: (13)Lynnwood, WA (Near Edmonds Woodway)Lot Size: 74,923Acres: 2Zoning: College District Mixed UseDetails: 2 Acres of land , near Edmonds Woodway high school, Edmonds community college.Deal #3 (9)Seattle , WA (Pinehurst/Northgate)Lot Size: 7,371Acres: 0.17Zoning: SF7200Details: Tear down home in Seattle.Deal #4 (17)Seattle, WA (Fremont/Wallingford)Lot Size: 4000Acres: 0.09Zoning: SF5000Details:Tear down home with tenants renting.Seattle, WA (West Seattle)Lot Size: 7680Acres: 0.18Zoning: SF7200Details:Small tear down property possible fixer , better use may be land.Deal #5 (18)Seattle, WA (Crown Hill)Lot Size: 6266Acres: 0.14Zoning: RSL (M)Details:High density zoning, old fixer home with bigger potential in land.Shoreline, WA (Meridian Park)Lot Size: 11,762Acres: 0.27Zoning: R6Details:Old fixer with additional lot in back , better use in land.

Further inland from the beach?

Owner occupancy and parking requirements were dropped for ADU's last year, which is a huge opportunity for you to leap-frog your single family house-hacks into a rental empire (this is what we're doing)Unfortunately almost nothing turnkey will cashflow here - which makes sense.

These tend to be mostly inland and mid-western cities, away from the coast, but definitely not all of them.I think these markets will deliver a good combination of rising home values, rising rents and cash flow.

However, his health and the succession plan for his empire appears to be a bit up in the air at this point.

I've decided that it's best to just keep your head down and focus on building your own empire!