Not to say anything is wrong with those properties but I am seeing more and more properties that people from Austin are buying "betting" on the future and not taking into consideration what it is today.

I'm not an expert on Wichita, but I'll bet a beer that your return on your Parker house, when considering rents AND appreciation, is much higher than the same amount of money invested in Wichita.

I guess I am holding on because I'm thinking of paying off the rest of the mortgage and then I can bet $1000/mo.

I'm also not sure how that area fared after Irma, but I bet there was some degree of flooding. 

I have to think this is your best bet by far.2) Craigslist3) Realtors.  

The University area is very good to invest in with decent returns and a safe bet

I think you best bet on a smaller sized multi-family in this case is to allow tenants to connect their own washer/dryer for a fee or just charge slightly more rent for the convenience rather than buy coin-op machines. 

I currently invest in both, the path of progress are great but you are betting on the actions of others, so while the pay off is potentially huge, it sometimes doesn't work out as planned.

A while back my wife introduced me to the BP podcasts and web site. 

You can A spend hours and hours on the web watching hour and a half long videos, be clueless of where to go, get sold a training that costs 5k plus (for information that you can learn on the web for free if you look hard enough, bigger pockets,crinoline, youtube, google, reitipster, ..the list goes on forever.