Therefore, your financial freedom hinges on new companies continuously moving into the city, creating replacement jobs.Companies have many options when selecting a location to set up operations.

Overbuilding certain features can lead to diminishing returns, especially if they don’t resonate with local buyers.

If you believe it will continue to appreciate (like most of San Antonio), I would hold on to it even if there's a bit of negative cashflow for the first year or two. 

When you do that, you can get better pricing and leaves less room for error.The best advice is to push forward as quick as possible, fail forward, and always continue to introspect on what you would do differently and then ACTUALLY go back and implement that change (easier to say than do).

At this point, instead of continuing to pay the interest loan payments on properties that we will never be able to financially finish since the rehab loans will not cover the actual cost of the rehab, I wanted to know the ramifications of returning the properties to the loan servicer, deed in lieu.

What unique features of this property do you believe makes it a good STR6.

By continuing to support a system which has stolen millions of homes from American people, for your own profit,  you are a part of the problem.  

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Continue to expand my bareland funding for land flippers .

Personally, if your market tends toward the former condition (better/normal appreciation) I think it's a fairly safe deal looking at the long term, assuming infrastructure around you continues to support the idea of renting it.