My husband and I just sold a property that we were renting in WA state and will have about $90k from that sale that I would like to reinvest, but not sure what the best options are around here to make the most of our money.

Thank you in advance for helping me navigate this decision.I have a long history of fix and flips in several states and the first thing I want to point out is that you make your money in the "buy".

Something that offers a bit more than a place to put your money.

The money is in the pad rental.  

Trust me; you don't want to miss those crucial dates and risk losing money or even blowing the whole deal.

However, if you have money and are looking to buy investment property there are many, many better places to invest than Austin.  

The perceived value may be more, because you know an STR was run there and making money, but a lender wont value it more.While I agree a lender probably won’t value it more, an investor interested in running it as a STR will pay more.  

Selling makes agents money and the IRS if you don''t 1031, it's almost always better to re-leverage instead.

Plus with rising inflation investors are going to want to park their money in hard assets since historically it's generally a good hedge against inflation.

Going over maps of known repairs with contractors showed that there were a few houses where people tried to have piers installed and ran out of money before hitting stable soil, others in the hyper local area did have to go to 100+ ft.