As a civil engineer and owner of a firm that works on a wide range of projects across Texas, Nebraska, and Colorado, I have learned the value of thorough due diligence before breaking ground.If you are doing ground up construction, make sure you understand what you are getting into with the city or county where you plan to build.

Cities that do not rely on visitors often see STRs as a threat to housing or neighborhood stability.

Houston is a large city and the traffic can be terrible(especially during rush hours).If you do decide to house-hack, I would try to get a house near where you will be working(if possible).Saving 30 minutes or 1 hour everyday is huge.Houston does have a lot of multi-family homes but I find it that the ones that will cash flow are in the undesirable areas.The ones near Montrose or Hermann Park are harder to cash-flow.

Financing tends to be smoother, and listings that have been on the market for a while can offer negotiation opportunities—especially in cities with strict point-of-sale requirements.

Airbnb markets are oversaturated, travel trends are shifting, and cities are tightening STR rules.

That is an odd case because it's like a "free city" and there is a separate "Baltimore County" section. 

Multifamily rents are down a bit year-over-year in most of the larger cities in FL, but it feels like a steeper decline in Jax (there's a recent Yardi Matrix report that shows it's down 1.1% YoY in October).

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For example, I would like to search for non-owner SFRs in a specific city, and get their email addresses as well! 

I know some pockets of the metro that are doing very well, still and that one apartment community in particular is sitting at 96%.That is in the central part of the city, though.