Reading some of the recent speculation in this thread, I'm beginning to think that an out-of-season vacation home in a remote would make a lot of sense as a hiding place.
I can see some vague similarities to the Jayme Closs case, where it turned out that Jake Patterson was holding her in a vacation home owned by his family in an area that was very sparsely populated that time of year. (Of course, the White case is *not* a kidnapping, and LE in the Closs case didn't know they were looking for Patterson specifically until Closs escaped and told them who to look for). My point, though, is that maybe VW somehow knew of a specific vacation home that isn't being used and has simply moved in for the time being.