This allows you the best shot at long term wealth creation and tax free money now to help fund your flips.

If you can get a 4 unit and a basement, that would be ideal and create major cash flow and equity creation, plus you can not worry about a property manager and boost your yield.

Many times the PM agreements can slant to favor the PM company since they pay for the creation of the agreement. 

In general, the North side of Austin has seen tremendous growth in past years and the northern suburbs have had a large uptick in home builds, job creation, and subsequently home prices.  

We have a well-diversified economy, weather and proximity that attracts business creation and 300+ people moving here every day.

If you can get a 4 unit plus basement, that would be ideal and create major cash flow and equity creation.

@Hannah Taylor I would prioritize income creation.

If you can get a 4 unit and share the basement , that would be ideal and create major cash flow and equity creation. 

Nothing you have listed would facilitate the creation of new housing. 

Many of the articles paint Blackrock and other similar firms as evil for buying homes and robbing individuals of the opportunity for wealth creation, but if private equity funds are buying and renting homes, they are engaging in similar behavior to many individual landlords, just at larger scale.