It's best to have a house manager.

https://www.har.com/content/department/newsroom?pid=2141Houston Real Estate Highlights for December and Full-Year 2024:
-Following two consecutive years of declines, single-family home sales rebounded in 2024 with 85...

@Shane Regnier I've flipped a bunch of houses in Ocala but have yet to dabble in the rental market. 

As you begin you REI journey here is a piece of advicecheck out this website for a great over view of a city https://www.areavibes.com/This website gives you a total livability score and you can see things like crime rate, housing, walking score and more.Best of luck!

A 5 unit multi family and a duplex plus my dad's house.

That being said, if you're 23 and you don't own a home, I really do recommend starting with a house hack as you don't need the 25% down capital to get started and you kill 2 birds with one stone by getting a rental and having a roof over your head. 

House was purchased August 2024 6k sq ft 9 bedroom distressed home for 66k ARV around 330k in the middle of renovations all of the sudden the bank accounts are frozen and we now have no funds to finish renovation.

They even sent someone from the city to the house to tell us to stop operating it as a STR. 

Overall, it's going to be up to the state and local governments to enact changes that will affect the local housing markets.

Until the house goes through the foreclosure process, I am making monthly interest payments.