How much gain are we taking about?

I would highly recommend joining some of the many meetups and networking events in Austin for real estate investors, very valuable exchanges of ideas in person as well

I'd look into the capital gains tax implications if you sell it now vs holding on to it.

Therefore many people what they do to get around this is partner up with an experience investor to help them get better terms on the hard money and that also helps you gain experience that you can use for when you go solo.

I'd recommend if your goal is to gain cash flow faster in order to free up your time, then BRRRing a property would be the best option.

As we embark on our journey into real estate investing, we are seeking valuable advice and guidance to establish a solid foundation in this industry

If you succeed in a big way, you will gain some friends and admirers. ( you’ll even have more friends if you pay for all the events, trips, and dinners.

When you are new as an investor, you also don't want to work with a new agent (you).Overall, I think a RE license is good for access (to homes to get reps and to the MLS) and I think the course itself is way more valuable for investors than agents (most just stay in residential and don't need to use all the weird stuff you learn).

This has got me thinking if my cash would be more valuable out of state.

(If curious, my residential real estate investor clients from 10 years ago [you can find my 10 year old bigger pockets dot com posts :], at the time buying up 2-4 unit properties, a lot of them are now done with the 'human' tenants and want to 1031 into something that is ACTUALLY passive, so yes Starbucks comes up, thus I watch it).In my case I zoomed all the way into a specific brand (which then allows me to make very sweeping generalizations across an entire state -- but still not the entire country), I'm not suggesting you do that, but SOME of the variables need to be narrowed down, before you can gain any useful insights.