@Patrick Thomas Dickinson the simple (and only) answer is to buy as many doors as possible in the most stable and growing market you can find...this would take on the form of a small multifamily property...probably in the 8-12 unit range within 20-minutes of a major metro city....you can find this in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Raleigh-Durham, Nashville, Indianapolis, and other comparable cities...they key is finding the property...C-class value add with a strong property manager and you're off to the races...5-year hold with improvements made, operating expenses lowered, and income driven higher means your valuation will come back with enough equity to pull and repeat the process.

@Jonathan Ng, it seems like you're putting the cart before the horse here.

Texas is Texas:HEB, Taco Cabana, Whataburger, it's own Air Force and boots on the ground military, can legally fly it's flag at the same height as the US Flag, has a ranch larger than Rhode Island.And a lot of Horses. 

I would be careful about possibly looking a gift horse in the mouth. 

I do expect to settle somewhere in the next year and then I will definitely be off to the races, it's just this in between phase that's getting to me.

Help me out of the rat race 😅

@Joey Gorombey not to beat a dead horse but I agree with all that's been said above.

This is not an easy thing to do as I had to re-write my mindset of years of being in the rat race.

Lots of shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, poor schools, and the highest crime rate in the USA."

I didn't want for this thread to be about race.