Yes, prices are high, but there is good potential for appreciation, and tenants are generally reliable and high quality. 

Even in the off-season - you can optimize visibility by setting competitive pricing, using high-quality photos, and enabling Instant Book with flexible policies.For older listings, try adjusting prices with dynamic tools, highlighting upgrades, and regularly updating your title, photos, or descriptions to stay fresh in search results.These tweaks can make a big difference!

PropStream has a driving for dollars app and its far superior to Deal Machine.

these tenant friendly laws seldom matter because the vacancy is so low the tenants want to stay in their units and realize an eviction will make it challenging to ever find a quality rental in this market.  

To reiterate, I don't need huge profit margins off these and I do want to offer quality rentals but they do need to make sense.  

Like / Kind quality home.

I wouldn't use them to complete the job, they've already shown they aren't doing quality work.

The Austin metro market is approaching that territory.Here are the full stats for Austin and the greater metro:On the rental front, a recent Redfin report placed Austin atop the list for the largest year-over-year decline in median rents among US metros:Appropriate rental pricing and high-quality marketing are vital to navigating the current leasing market effectively.

To determine the quality of a property requires to evaluate all of its return as well as potential return.  

By all measures this strategy is far superior to what all the BRRR/DSCR/Poor Dad Rich Dad folk do.