ADT is more robust but also way more expensive and you can't do anything yourself really. 

Some of the smartest military members I have met have thought strategically about where they want to land after the military, and for them they are trying to plan out that landing spot. 

To date, I have created two strategic partnerships with other veteran organizations to match veterans with parking industry jobs of varying skill levels

Whether big or small try to complete them and take it from there … putting things on paper will help you prioritize abs strategize.

Consider renting a strategic move, to give you time to scout for the off-market or under-appreciated property while you're already in Nashville.

Some of the cash can be used to rehab the property, use Rentometer to find a good strategic price point for renting, and collect cash flow. 

In any case, the Austin markets (real estate and labor) are very robust, and I don't see that changing in the near future.

Prices in San Francisco are already ultra high - almost 10x of my home town Milwaukee - and they are still going up.Now of course Milwaukee does not have a silicone valley (even though a very robust economy) so real estate will probably never be anywhere close to those levels.

Plus Austin just passed a bond for Project Connect to create a more robust mass transit system which includes tunnels underneath downtown for rail.

WE all worry about the black swan event well we had one with Covid who would have predicted with that event that real estate would turn from robust to white hot ??