The city is hostile to landlords and real estate development and the trend is just getting started.  

For the house I would be living in, I'm thinking about buying a 3 to 4 bedroom house in a trendy neighborhood and house hacking by renting out rooms to cover my mortgage.

I've also seen the real estate market locally cool over the past 6 months and the trend is down.How are things going in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, etc.?

Tonight our small investor group will start an open ended conversation about how to go about making an existing older neighborhood in our community into trendy and popular neighborhood with more of an urban identity.

Then as you go down the food chain, I'm seeing 6-8 in the less trendy areas.

It is true the area hasn't seen much development on the commercial/retail side BUT I think in the next few years more trendy spots will come closer to campus.

We are beginning to see inflation in those countries, so I think that trend is closer to ending than it is to beginning. 

I don't need to live in a prestigious neighborhood in a "hot market" and go to trendy clubs just to make it rain $1,000 bottles of champagne.Who am I trying to impress, after all? 

I think you will have difficulty finding a duplex for $360K that will rent out at 1,900/side.In mid 2016 we sold a duplex for $377.5K in a very trendy part of Dallas (Live Oak and Skillman, near Lowest Greenville), the Property taxes were $6,023/year, and the rents were a tad under $1,400/side. 

In my mind a plex is either lower end housing, student housing, or "trendy neighboorhood" inner city housing (Houston's Montrose area).