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.

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

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.

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.

Even his Wikipedia is rough. 

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.

When I researched and saw that an ADU can cost up to 6 figures I was shocked.

Everyone's favorite answer in real estate---"it depends".That being said, you have to start somewhere to figure that out.

I've never seen a place where so many people of average to below average intelligence make 6 figures.