In your case, staying in Houston or exploring surrounding areas could be smart moves, but don't overlook other regions where new construction might be booming.Consider a Mix of Strategies:While your primary strategy is buy and hold, it could be worth looking into markets or property types that might give you better cash flow opportunities.

The Midwest and Northeast regions have shown consistent growth, driven by balanced supply-demand dynamics.

No other country in the region can compete. 

It means mass failures of regional banking because that's who holds majority of this commercial financing and what are they going to do with a property nobody will buy, or due to such change of numbers can only offer 30 cents on the dollar, where does the other 70 cents come from?

Quote from @Daniel Khan: Hi everyone,I am a finance professional in Toronto and I want to explore a career as a a real estate developer.

First, does your lease address the issue, (such as in this example):  "Tenants will obey all local, regional, and federal laws or be subject to eviction."

Personally, I was looking for a second market in Central America, being mostly active in Mexico but I decided to keep my focus on Mexico within the region and clearly that was the right decision to make.

Chattanooga is bustling, Steady yearlong traffic, new housing developments going up everywhere you turn your head, countless jobs being opened in this region, new highway construction to widen our 3 lanes into 5 lanes, a new MiLB stadium in the works, and many many more things.

Finding an established group that finds a way to get deals done tends to be as helpful as anything as many of us have had experiences of weird and seemingly unnecessary denials.I do like to make sure that its a region they lend to and the type of project that they do.

I wanted to see how things are in recent events in this regards, as I have no knowledge of this region of the globe.