My recommendation, depending on income, is to get 2-8 total properties per city and really allocate 40-60% of your intended investment before moving to the next city.

Many others are moving here for better prices.

A few things to consider:Selling and 1031 Exchange: Moving to a 2-family is a great idea.

My first property was a duplex, and then a year or so later she bought her house, and we moved in together living in MIL suite basement and rented out the rest of the house.

For this reason, I prefer to plan renovations when a long-term tenant moves out.

However, after tenant moved out on 9/30/24, the pool for interested tenants was shallow and so we listed the property to test the market and ended up getting an offer at asking price within a couple days.

Been moving along with this project. 

I will be moving to Austin myself in two years, since Austin market is quite dried up, thinking of investing in SA as OOS.

When I was 22 I had to move from my home town to Las Vegas in pursuit of HVAC trade school.

At the closing date, we had a tenant ready to move in.