very, very difficult to start out of state.here's a post that goes into these issues in tons of detail.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1159104-overl...you're in texas - you have lots of markets and submarkets. no reason to go out of state.

And what should I do, learn or read on this topic? 

He has a book out on the topic that helped me develop systems to do this.

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Vikram and others brought up an interesting topic in another thread, and because it was buried pretty deep in there, I wanted to break it out into a new thread.

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Wanted to check if that is true and if it is just lender specific or are there any legal laws around it.Thanks The rules are generally pretty vague - for the 10% Down Second Home Loan - generally are supposed to be not an investment property (no more than half the year rented out, no property management) and the vicinity rule is not super clear - but you are supposed to live "near the property"There won't be a difference among lenders since this is a GSE backed product (all rules the same) - however, the difference is likely to come from the interpretation of how close "near" meansThis is a good twitter (X) thread on the topic from a lawyer thats in the spacehttps://twitter.com/Wildlaw406/status/1689416363973214213

I finished a couple of books regarding the topic.

Appreciate you taking this topic seriously, but you haven't met the "challenge" yet:)

Please just post your inquiry one time into whatever forum best suits the topic.