Hi Ryan,Just off the top of my head, here are some of my thoughts.Look carefully at the zoning and see if there are other possible uses allowed for it's zoning type (and see if the zoning conforms currently).Such as Med/Dental (prob require an elevator), or whatever besides just office space (is the living space unit non-conforming--is it Grandfathered in, what triggers the end of the Grandfather, has that happened, will a sale make that happen (???)

Med prices SFH homes in Austin?

Other than FR (pin pile approach low bid) and R&R FS (the knowledgeable but med-high bid for helicol piles)...any other local contractors you know that I can consider for the helical pile approach?

A few facts about me: we got some funds from a med mal settlemwnt, but not enough to retire on. because of her situation, I really cannot be on-site as often as I'd like, but I help out where I can.

I would want it to be inside the loop 610, near Museum District or in the Southwest portion of the loop as my work and my girlfriend's work is near the Museum District / med center area. 

Growth/med income combined with lake and historic district it is 4 rental market in the country.

As I've heard many in the physician real estate investing community say, this isn't med school hard.

With that being said we aren't really sure whether our excess should be put towards our debt or if we should use that to try to find our first property.Personally, I would love to put it towards our first property because this is something that we've been talking about for 3 years now and I'm at a point that I'm tired of talking about it and ready to make it happen (hence me dropping out of med school haha) but I'm not sure if that's that best decision and I am just seeking some guidance on managing debt while still getting started (and it hopefully not taking us another 1-2 years to finally buy our first property).One thing that we've discussed is house hacking while using an FHA loan.

.- No previous real estate experience, only knowledge I've researched for the past year- All in our mid 20s, stable jobs (friend is in med school only) 

Low, med, high, $$ multipler ?