If you have skills find the money partner.. get expreince build up your track record then you can branch out.

outskirts of San jacinto and 1200 sq foot I'm this inking if moving in for a year doing some work myself. 

My contract has a contingency that my seller must provide clear title liens etc so my plan is to get it inked and pay for the probate process if necessary.

Perhaps you could have underlined the words “until the property is sold” and added a fine print that when the property is eventually sold the taxes due will be more than the taxes saved because depreciation recapture is taxed at a higher rate than long term capital gains rate 😏Here is a an example of someone paying thousands of dollars in tax preparation each year in order to record the paper losses noted in K-1.https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

It is likely the property will continue to appreciate and if you rent it you will get the benefit of both income (rent) AND appreciation, plus tax savings (depreciation), plus equity build up from the loan being reduced further.

Burnet is not a big community and feeds jobs more around the Highland Lakes (Lake Marble Falls, Lake LBJ, Lake Inks, Lake Buchanan).

Also, it would be great to build up a team of realtors, mortgage agents & handyman who understand the need for investment properties.

Most other locations offer 1 to 2 months free, which makes no sense to me when your near 100% full.Looked at your storage locations and build up. 

Have you checked out Chase’s Business Ink Cards?

You won't build up much equity through paying your mortgage in 2 years due to how the principal and interest payments work-go to a website for a big bank in Canada and look at the principal vs interest chart for a mortgage-most of the payments go to interest at the start.