Option 1 - buy a house and pay ~3+k per month (including taxes, insurance, cap ex)Option 2 - rent in good downtown area for $1,300 per monthI'd pick option 2 and save $20k guaranteed per year (versus principal paydown, nonguaranteed appreciation, and negative cash flow).

Once you load in a template, you should review our pricing, talk to your local contractors and and pick out the specific materials you are going to be using.For example, our templates list a "vanity" as a line item and include $150 for labor, and $500 for material. 

Under 5 units is your pick of what everyone has said above, as each software seems to be quite similar and comes down to personal preference.

I'm not saying ADUs are the answer to these hard questions but picking up and leaving is not always so simple.

The MLS gets pretty picked over, pretty fast.

Metro Detroit - this is really what most investors conceptualize when picking a market.

I feel that Redlands is an up and growing city with lots of potentials and still has room for investors.I'm in the process of picking up a SFH with half  an acre lot.

If you find a place that will cash flow at a 200k budget on long term rents in Houston, I promise you that you do not want to own in that neighborhood AND it probably does not actually cash flow due to the class of tenant, capex, vacancy, and turnover costs.I'd suggest you try to find some connection to a place rather than randomly picking a market.

Finally, start hitting some meetups if you can to pick people's brains, find potential deals, learn what about areas you don't know, etc.Best of luck!

But real wealth comes from long-term buy-and-hold, and if you hold this for 20 years, the money you'll make then will dwarf that small savings.Plus, at least here in Colorado, the market is picking up.