If you're going to go there and rent for a year to test the area and see if you like it, you may as well house hack.

If there is appreciation potential and the rent would cover your costs, you may as well keep it.

If you're going to do that you may as well go to Lockhart and there are 2-3 of the nation's best bbq places there.

If this is the case you may as well consider it all being invested at once anyway.

I live in Fairfield county, and the county may as well be 5 different worlds.

May a landlord continue to evict a tenant who is grossly late on rent (as of now, 13 days) after starting the eviction proceedings if the tenant tries to pay rent?

Others may as well.FULL DISCLOSURE - I have no relationship with Shamrock Financial other than sending clients to them.

Which I think it may as house prices have simply exploded in the past 3 months. 

While you're at it, you may as well take some of the savings you are getting by not doing this as a purchase, and buy the interest rate down to something stupid low so you can brag about it to your friends at cocktail parties and/or on BP.

I am mostly knowledgeable about real estate market on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, and I can tell you that this region (Riviera Maya) has been one of the fastest developing regions in the world.