Temple: Major Medical (only Level I trauma center between Austin and Dallas and VA hospital), FB/META is building a data center here, Belton has private 4 yr university, and Killeen has Ft.

As for buy and hold, my goal for this year is to up my gross rent income up to a certain level. I

I have no idea what will happen on a national level.  I

We now know that our duplex has separate meters for electricity, but the gas and water need to stay in our name as landlords (per the water and gas companies), and we bill those amounts back to the tenants.We have 1 single man who has 1 child who will live with him 1/2 time in the upper level, and we have 1 single woman who has 3 children will will live with her 1/2 time in the lower level.  I

@Kevin Kong the stress level is so much higher when you have all the layers of oversight that a 203k provides.

Your property manager needs to be a bit of a social worker at that level. I

These new laws are statewide but are fairly new, so it may take some time for the new verbiage to trickle down through the city level. I

While still early in the project, to say the numbers are staggering when compared to what I would be able to do in the States on the same level is an understatement. 

@Ericka Grant you spoke of next level? I

The prices are lower because the income level is much lower, schools are poor, and local government is in disarray.