The “leaving the city” articles you’re reading feed on hype and are temporary. 

If property taxes were abolished, would you decrease your tenants rents?

So you have to be either looking for high cash flow while higher babysitting temporary residents and higher turnover (because tenants just don't respect your property if they don't consider it their real "home") I'm attracted to the idea of getting something in need of repairs, fix it, rent it, and sit on it for a while, meanwhile churning all profits back into, then get payday when I sell it on the retail market (I'm also a Realtor).

Or, in the case of a rental property, your mortgage payment could end up being more than you're able to collect in rent if rental rates decrease.

A - B - Cmoney goes from C to A with B pocketing difference.title goes from A to C with B holding temporary title ownership thus you are not brokering since you "owned" the property, albeit for a short time period. hope this helpsAlso dont forget to verify.

This would decrease my mortgage payment and increase my return from tenants. 

We work hard to raise rents, decrease expenses to increase equity. 

And since the onset of the pandemic, they’ve dropped an additional 4.5 percent, bringing the decrease to nearly 8 percent!

It would let you put less money down and if done right should decrease your living expenses.

(Forbes)Lower business & lifestyle costs than others.Amazingly affordable real estate for investment.Single-family, duplexes, fourplexes.3-year appreciation forecast of 9.1%.Around 45% of the residents are renters.The growing fuels the rental demand.San Antonio is also known for its low cost of living.Closed sales increased by 14 percent year-over-year.Compared to June 2019, San Antonio's average price of a home increased by 3%.Year-to-date, the average price has shown an increase of 5% to $278,395.In a year-to-date, year-over-year comparison, Bexar County faired well compared to Travis (-10.7%) Harris (-4.9%) and Dallas County (-6.8%.)Each of these counties indicates a decrease while Bexar county shows a promising a 3.4% increase.As predicted, June has shown to be a strong buying season.