My family and I are looking to move between January- April of 2025 and we bought our current house pre 2020 so we have a large chunk of money in equity, we really have 3 options on our plate.

This is largely a cultural question.

I like this format.

Instead of paying $5,000 a month for a mortgage (plus taxes, insurance, and maintenance) consider renting for $3,000 a month and save the other $2,000 a month to apply towards real estate investing.There are many great areas to invest in, and they don't have to be large cities like Cleveland.

The house much be large enough.

Plum Creek, Kyle - 1900 SF, 4 bed 2 bath, Corner lot, large backyard, great school district ratingWhisper, San Marcos - 2300 SF, 4 bed 3 bath + study room, moderate backyard, OK school district ratingThe Whisper property is about $20K higher priced.

But I don't see it coming back under the seemingly "new" format which is mostly news, industry professionals (mortgage, lending, agent, etc).

It’s a jack of all trades here with little to no trade offs/cons when comparing apples to apples to other large STR markets.The key to success here though comes in the knowledge and execution.

You are making a large ask way too early.

I dumped every warranty I had because it never resulted in a replacement solution for large repairs.