The National Parks Gold Rush + The Tax Trap Nobody Talks About
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
National parks can be unbeatable demand engines… but hype also creates overpriced disasters. Then comes the deeper punch: people buying STRs that don’t cash flow just to chase depreciation and getting hit again with recapture later. If you’ve ever justified a bad deal with “tax benefits,” this is your wake-up call.
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About Ryan Pineda:
Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.
Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you feel about these smaller markets that attracted a lot of investors? |
| 0:04.7 | Okay, so there's a whole thing to look at there. |
| 0:08.4 | So you ask about what markets work. |
| 0:11.0 | In general, I'm a big fan of national parks. |
| 0:13.7 | National parks and state parks attract millions and millions of people. |
| 0:18.9 | Like the Smoky Mountains attracts 14 million people a year. |
| 0:22.5 | So over a million people a month go to Gatlinburg, right? |
| 0:25.8 | You never have to pay for marketing for the Grand Canyon. |
| 0:28.6 | You never have to pay for marketing for Joshua Tree. |
| 0:31.3 | These are cool hotspots in the country. |
| 0:33.1 | I still think that they're really great places to invest in. |
| 0:36.2 | Where the saturation comes up in a place |
| 0:38.3 | like Gatlinburg is that everything is a tongue and groove interior with bare art, |
| 0:45.2 | bare toilet paper holders, and just like really tacky bear stuff. And so I think the people that |
| 0:50.7 | tend to not do so well are the people that are like identical to every single person out there so we're even pushing like cabin design up there these days i still think the |
| 0:59.0 | gatlinburg market is good i think it got a little crushed the past couple of years because it got |
| 1:02.8 | a lot of publicity yeah a lot of people came in and spent one two three hundred k over asking and |
| 1:08.7 | now they're they're eating it now yeah it can't cash flow yeah today yeah that's |
| 1:14.7 | that's kind of the point i was making earlier it's like the normal property you're gonna buy just |
| 1:19.4 | because of the price and the rates is just your your basis is so much higher on a monthly |
| 1:23.7 | you know mortgage um it's bad out there, man. |
| 1:31.1 | Like, for a bit, because it's like, it's frustrating. |
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