I am down for a coin or two once I can figure some more basics out a little better at least.

Overall, you're on the right track, asking the right questions as you figure out your strategy as you start.

Figure the parking out.

For example, one poster above suggested you should use short cuts like NOI/price to figure out a the cap rate and if the cap rate is too low you don’t look into it any further.

Your wish list is more like a $350k property in Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, University Heights,Shaker Heights, et al.It's time to re-evaluate what is most important, and then work backwards to figure out the locations where you can achieve the desired result. 

For most of 2024, we saw 5-6 months of inventory in the Austin area.Here are the December 2024 for Austin and the greater metro:Here’s a chart showing the median sales price of a single-family home in the City of Austin in 2024:The median sales price for a single-family home in December 2024 was up roughly 9% from the beginning of the year.

You can use some easy number in Chat GPT to help you figure out what you need.  

I’m starting off wanting to get into a primary residence that I plan to house hack and then figure out the next move into investment properties but that’s down the roadwith all that said, are there other ways that im not thinking of to 1.

like I said I would be happy to give anyone my opinion and thought on the area of town. if is a rough part of town. 

With such a competitive Dallas market, getting any house under 200k that's not in a rough area looks impossible.