That’s not entirely accurate, as the cities surrounding Lexington benefit from its growth due to proximity.

Right now, I am thinking of turnkey out-of-state if the market continues at this pace because property taxes are so high in El Paso and rent growth has not increased with prices. 

When faced with rising expenses, and let's be fair, skyrocketing expense growth, right, a business has 3 choices; (a) eat it and ride into bankruptcy. 

Learn the easy way then grow the portfolio to financial freedom :)

As stated before there are some good areas that are showing steady growth in this market.  

Gloria above kinda touched on the Indy market but Indy is great market to look into for a lot of different reasons such as population growth, housing inventory, and cost of entry.

That is really the epicenter of growth in Metro Phoenix for the next decade.Since Metro Phoenix has a healthy inventory of homes in your buy box and interest rates are keeping many buyers on the sidelines, it's a good time to be a buyer in Metro Phoenix.Hope this helps,Melanie

The only challenge when being a full time investor that depending on how much passive income you are generating from your investments that can slow you down in your growth or maybe you have enough to continue at a comfortable pace.

My advice is to look into markets that have great macroeconomics with both population growth and job growth.

We have seen rapid growth in the macroeconomics - population growth, job growth, and major companies moving and developing here like Intel, Meta, Amazon, Google, Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital, etc.