Check out this link as its straight from the austin board of realtors and is a much more accurate account of the metro area. 

A local investor just told me that cash makes you lazy. It struck home with me.

I’m looking into out of state investing and I can land a couple easy ones with conventional 20-25% down loans, then work on getting crea...

Without there being a total investment or down payment, my return is straight cash flow. 

Account Closed, have you considered perhaps landing a house hack within a couple years of graduation before jumping straight into OOS investing as your first goal?

Get it straight from the lion's mouth.IRS PublicationHow to distinguish between hobby and businessAll I can find is that your home office must meet two requirements: Regular and exclusive use.Principal place of your business.If you manage your business primarily from home and use that space exclusively for that business, then it sounds like it matches.

He earned 10% APR on his money while it was invested (it was not an equity split just a straight percentage return) and he got to meet our team and see how we purchased the deal and ran our numbers and determined the quality of the rehab. 

Lastly, I thought about skipping smaller multifamily and going straight for commercial.

My understanding was that my duplex would be depreciated via a 27.5-year straight-line method on a half-year convention in which the half year's worth came in the first year regardless of when I bought the property.

I have tons of respect and admiration for you taking massive action straight out of college and diving into the real estate game!

We just had to take a tree down (preventative-- angled straight at an $$$$ neighbor's house) , and we posted a picture of it on CL, with some details, and got people to send us quotes.. they varied from $500-$3,000, with the average being around $1200.