Ideally you need to throw 3-4 hours a day at it to see fruit down the road.

Ideally, I’d stick with a single market, but the numbers in Houston didn’t make sense anymore, and I didn’t want to buy another short-term rental.

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Hi Max, a good rule of thumb is to start with your target market/ideal guest.

Honestly if you are doing STR I would suggest doing Austin itself rather than all the way out there in Kyle - maybe a couple of years ago when the prices were through the roof in Austin city itself this would be a good alternative but there is a blip right now where you can get a god entry point in Austin (downtown/east ideally) for STR

Develop a program coming out of college.  

I deal with a number of CA investors that take this same approach. 

You probably don't want to live next door to tenants; ideally, they would just think you're also renters.