Here's how this played out in Austin: I think now is potentially go time in Austin, here in summer/fall/winter 2025.

I feel like I've been thinking about this for a really long time now, and I love the outdoors and I would love to own something in the forest. 

Pete area because of the milder, warmer winters, and I am trying to see if I can structure a deal on a Duplex, Tri or Quad that would give me an extra bedroom to use as an STR and/or place for me to escape to in the winter while the other 2 or 3 tenants help pay my mortgage.  

Pros: landlord friendly, diverse industries, stable economy, good suburban schools for kids (my kids went to Carmel schools when they were little), insurance costs are reasonable (occasional tornadoes)Cons: property taxes: mine are 2.77% Indy and 2.7% Hamilton County as an investor and they go up with no predictable pattern 17% for both homes recently, if you compare appreciation to California and western states, not as high, winter weather issues (frozen pipes if someone isn't checking on vacant properties

(The struggle is countrywide, man - wake up and smell the coffee)You have proven you are a logger who can't see the forest for the trees. 

OH Oakbrook- Baton Rouge, LAShadow Glen- Manor TX The Element- Sacramento CA The Walk- Tuscaloosa ALWolf Run- Reno NV Vintage Horizon West- Winter Garden FL AW Newport- Tempe AZ4 & J- San Diego CA The Buckingham- Chicago IL

We are also temporary heat providers for most large construction projects in and around Buffalo NY, neither I nor anyone in the industry that I know if has been contacted about setting up temporary heat for this project which is normally one of the first steps before a project gets into winter. thats a nice cottage industry winter heat.. 

I figured those colors would pop from fall, winter, spring and through the summer.  

I've never seen so few people up at Leconte except when we've went in the winter with heavy snow.

@Warren Qi I recently closed on a vacant property and have chosen to use my realtor to help place tenants as opposed to Home River Group... my thought being that if they're slow to respond to me they may also be slow to respond to prospective tenants... learning as I go and so far the realtor has had the posting for about a week and a half in late fall/early winter and there are multiple applicants to sort through.