Average rent, which sat at $1,367 and dipped to $1,300 at its pandemic low (-4.9%), skyrocketed to $1,647 by September 2021, a 25.3% year-over-year increase.The median rent in Austin has increased by $155 since April 2021, when rent nationwide began to rebound at the onset of the COVID vaccine rollout.

Property values have skyrocketed, taxes are high, and there are HOAs to contend with. 

Also if you self manage the CoC would skyrocket.

I don't regret doing it because the property has continued to skyrocket and I'm paying a laughably small amount of property taxes, but it still doesn't provide nearly the same amount of utility as selling and 1031-exchanging it into a much larger property.

. - the prices in Logan Square have skyrocketed over the past several years while the rents have not accelerated at nearly the same rate.

If interest rates were to skyrocket and the market dips in year 10, you will likely have enough equity in the deal to support a lower LTV. 

New Braunfels’ population skyrocketed 36.03 percent in five years, and the housing rate jumped more than 50 percent.https://austin.culturemap.com/...

I don't mind charging lower rents (as long as the numbers work with my plans), but am I going to be stuck at today's low income rental rates while regular rental prices skyrocket?

Rents everywhere have skyrocketed in the past 24 months so by holding the rent you have been very generous to your residents. 

So my thought was if we built stairs connecting the bottom to the top ( so you didn’t have to go outside to get up there.) and converted the full kitchen upstairs to a kitchenette, hopefully when we refinance it will refinance as a single family home (like the previous owners bought it as 3 years ago.) and our value will skyrocket.