The reason is the rent-to-price ratio is good so you can cash flow, and most of the West side doesn’t have a Point of sale inspection which is really annoying.

It will be very difficult to cash flow in Austin using traditional LTR methods unless you put down a huge down payment.

I think it is best for me in my situation to use an all cash offer, and I don't rent back to distressed sellers.  

However, there's an obvious loophole to the claim because if you buy a house for 999K and then the value goes over 1 million then technically you're one of the 90% that just became a millionaire through real estate :) REIT investing is a much less active way of investing into the 11 major real estate sub-sectors, in the US we have 274 listed REITs on the major exchanges of NYSE and NASDAQ, and about 75-80 of them are not equity REITs but rather mortgage REITs, which I like to park cash in when 10yr yields are trending down to give me capital appreciation plus 14-15% dividend yields. check out alreits | Global REIT Researchto do more thorough individual research.

That being said my residential rental will have a positive cash flow of $500 and I plan to rent out this other side of the duplex immediately and will have a balance of 600 to cover for the mortgage.

@Samuel Coronado - cash flow on new builds here right now is fairly non-existant without putting more than 20% down. 

I do not have to much cash for a down payment but was thinking of doing a HELOC on one of the rentals to get more cash and go the BRRRR method.

Quote from @Joseph McElmeel: Any updates on if New Wealth Advisors is legit, worth it, or a scam?

What are the homes worth?

In some areas with low water cost the expense of splitting may not be worth it.