It's always a tough call on whether to just do a day trip or pay for a rental as the costs of a nice rental can add up quickly.The TL/DR (which I'll expand on) is that we ended up changing to a strategy of letting others help pay for a cabin that we know we'll love.

No surprise, this, along with job growth (HP is a large employer) forces prices to stay high as demand creeps up too.

Mostly you're going to see that on high end expensive homes, where sellers only allow pre-qualified individuals to tout their homes.  

It made my payments way more manageable, and I ended up saving a good chunk on interest.

In the end my duplex - 2bed/2 bath on each side- stays fully booked mostly by construction workers and it's been working really well for me. 

I told them to remove their equipment at the end of this month.

At the end of their stay, it logs them out of everything automatically.

In the end, I set myself of up a C-Corp > LP > LLC structure after hearing a lot of people were doing simple LLCs and getting double taxed. 

He doesn't have the capacity to make it to the end of the line but does his best. 

Dollars to donuts most those guys never end up buying even that first one.