Assess the quality and experience of the management team or consider outsourcing management duties to reputable firms.Market Oversaturation: An oversupply of similar properties in the market can depress rental rates and occupancy levels, affecting your investment returns.

Anyone have any recommended providers in Texas that you've worked with that are good quality?

Also, are there other things I may not be taking into account, other than "quality of life" issues?

Prices are all over the place and so is quality.

From a quality of life perspective you can't beat living in Saratoga.

Reliable, quality work at a reasonable price.

Quantity of income (amount of NOI)Quality of income (likelihood of NOI)The former is harder to collect, but the latter can be public data.

The caveat to that is that GCs range greatly in quality. 

There's so much bad info and just poorly informed opinions on the quality of skip trace services it can be difficult for someone to know what's legit and what isn't.   

This proved to be another amazing turn of fortune since not only was this general contractor able to complete the work at a fair market value; the work itself was extremely high quality and we couldn't have been happier with the outcome.