Sadly people think they can generate leads out of thin air, meaning the person they called wouldn't have realized they wanted to sell their home had not the wholesaler or investor hit them up to ask if they would be willing to.

I'll DM you a blog I did on other great tax strategies I've used for my house hacks in Colorado Springs. 

Did my first balance sheet in spring 2019. 

I'm familiar with Katy and Fort Bend but also would love to learn about other areas such as Spring and Cypress. 

Our property was in Michigan and had sub-freezing and occasionally sub-zero temperatures, so 60 degrees is a nice spring day.FWIW, wind chill is how cold it feels to a human.  

Ski areas thar don't have caps like Vail, Steamboat Springs, etc don't make sense numbers wise.Solutions?

If I do move, I'm considering a house hack on a multi-family, ideally a 4-plex.Honestly, I'm familiar with downtown Houston, Spring, The Woodlands, etc. but nothing past the Galleria on the West side. 

@Liran AferganWe do medium-term rentals in our own rentals in Colorado Springs and Denver (and work with a lot of investors doing mid-term rentals), and the rental rates are more like 1.3-1.5x that of long-term rents.

If you're at a loss and paying off the shortage still puts you at a loss I think your best bet is selling, or seeing how you can get more income from current rents by making it mid term/seasonal or an air bnb. 

Spring is the time of year where the highest volume of properties go under contract... if it were me I'd factor that heavily into my decision