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Bei He
  • Rental Property Investor
  • San Jose, CA
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Bay Area Investors: Sacramento vs. Austin?

Bei He
  • Rental Property Investor
  • San Jose, CA
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I bought my first investment rental property in Sacramento last year. Class B neighborhood, 25% down and currently $150/month cash flow positive (not account any repairs since we did pretty much all repairs when we bought the property). 

This year, I started to look at Austin, especially Milwood area near Apple campus. Yes I feel more tech are moving to Austin and compare with Bay Area price, Austin housing price seems really good lol. However I'm having trouble to have the numbers to make sense. Compare with Sacramento, the home price and rent are similar. For example $300k range SFH, rent ~$1800. However Austin has much higher property tax and also home insurance. Plus I can manage the Sac rental myself vs. PM company will charge around 70% first month rent + 8% of every month after that....that just wipe out my hope to get the rent cover expenses after max 35% down..

Plus I also feel Sac rent are going up vs. Austin rent can't even catch the property tax up $$. 

Any Bay Area folks looked at Austin? Do you have any success story to share? 

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