I got curious about Texas and it looks to be a very restrictive environment for finders fees, even moreso than here in Florida:https://www.texasrealestate.co...An unlicensed person referred business to me.

Most of the country I would imagine is the same in this type of environment. 

The military and contracting jobs associated with the bases provide more of a stable environment for rental property investors when things go sideways like the shutdowns last year.

I should probably just file this rant with Captain Obvious.In this current environment, getting any sort of contractor is hard to say the least.

I would like to simply host or take part in small group meetings to discuss deals and share ideas in a "iron sharpens iron" type of in-person environment.  

Until the job market slows along with a slow down in population movement into the Austin MSA, real estate environment will continually be a buyers market.  

The ability to make a positive impact in the infrastructure of local neighborhoods and economies continues to win investors.FAVORABLE LEVERAGE/DEBTMultifamily benefits from the most favorable financing treatment of all real estate asset classes, oftentimes receiving the most competitive interest rates and longest amortization periods.This favorable environment is led by agency lenders, which were originally created to support housing stock.

I'd like to get some opinions on this, to see what other landlords might do in this situation/current environment etc. 

TuscaloosaSouth BendDes MoinesKansas City KSColumbia SCIf you want a list of those with just the lowest price to rent ratios, here's some:DetroitJackson MSBirminghamClevelandDaytonKansas City KSAkronHartfordAll the cities I listed should hopefully be more "target-rich environments" than the SF Bay Area unless my math was off or my analysis is wrong. 

Last time I saw this I was in Greece in 2007, learning the flip game in an environment so out of whack that after the bottom fell out of the giant Ponzi scheme that the country had become, the Greeks were forced to admit the situation would take generations to fix.I'm not going to cry doom and gloom.