The lower barrier to entry would be excellent for my personally smaller net worth.

Explore Financing OptionsChicago offers excellent financing opportunities for house hackers.

All of them excellent.

That is all we use it for.Negatives are we still use home made Excel spreadsheets for business expense management. 

That said, Texas tends to offer more affordable housing than Florida’s coastal towns, so your money might go further if you’re buying properties for yourself and your portfolio.When it comes to family life, Texas has tons of family-friendly suburbs with excellent schools.

This platform offers excellent networking opportunities.

This has also allowed us to provide some excellent incentives for our investors, locking in long term debt currently at 3.75%  through our in house financing program.

The BiggerPockets community has excellent book recommendations, such as The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner.

@Patricia Andriolo-BullStessa is an excellent platform for tracking income and expenses for investors; it is user-friendly.

There are thousands of websites out there that are disguised as helping the public find the best of the best but at the end of the day its simply taking your info and selling it to a 3rd party as a lead.If you are trying to buy a home or an investment property and you have good to excellent credit you should always use an FDIC Bank or Credit Union.