Hey Y'all,My girlfriend and I moved to Dallas 4 months ago for some great career moves; she now owns a 7-Eleven franchise and I took a new job as a Financial Reporting Mgr at a public company.

The high-quality labor force attracts new business, which upends the traditional relationship between business and population growth.Markets like Austin and Dallas in Texas, Atlanta, and Charlotte and Raleigh in North Carolina are as much lifestyle destinations as employment centers.

In metros like Dallas wholesalers are able to sell for upwards of 80-85% of ARV. 

Indy is still going with decent returns, and you can get returns in Atlanta and Dallas and maybe occasionally in Charlotte, but those three cities hit their heydays in ~2011-2012 so now you'd be paying astronomically higher prices than you would have when they were the popular markets (and probably why you've heard them mentioned so much).

And knowing that there's no future returns or tax breaks to be had.Currently in North Dallas, I'm thinking about buying a house closer to work (Downtown Dallas) but anything even remotely decent is 35% and more of my monthly earnings.

Since I am out of state, I don’t have any particular preference for Austin, Raleigh/Durham, Dallas or San Antonio.

Any developers (but especially the Dallas, TX or Garland area), what's the best way to analyze this property?

It would be nice to have someone local, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area so we could potentially do some work together or we could shadow them looking at a deal etc.. 

Terrance Lee a lot of investors have moved on from dallas due to too much competition.

I just received my property tax notice for a commercial office/warehouse space I own.  Two years in and they county is raising my valuation $30K.  I've researched the various protest methods and concluded there's a si...