Just to keep your license you will pay several thousand dollars per year in fees for your brokerage and MLS and Supra E Key, etc.

What factors drive appreciation in the San Antonio market?

I'm currently living with my parents rent-free, so I have the flexibility to wait before house hacking.Considering these factors, would it be advisable to rip out the carpet and install LVP flooring now, or should I wait until I move out to make the change?

I hate to continue to pile on the fees for credit checks to do them on four sets of parents after charging the tenants for this. 

and if you're already factoring in what i said, then great - be patient and look at 50 more.

Too many factors go into determining someone's rate, and what you find online will likely just tell you what direction people THINK rates are headed, and national averages. 

However, I don't wish to pay a ton of fees - just to have MLS access last year I had to to pay CAR+NAR+Local Association+ MLS fees.

Lots of rentals on the market right now in DFW, so you don't want them moving.  1-2-3 months of vacancy, releasing fees, and make ready are very tough to make up, so best to keep your current tenants.A couple of strategies you can try...#1. 

Also, I would be wearly about the HOA fees with condos espeically if you are going to BRRRR this and rent out to section 8. 

There are so many ways a syndicator can "add risk" to the deal in order to hit a marketable return for LPs, that any LP really needs to understand the ins and outs of real estate operations, market cycles, financing structures, fees and carried interest, etc if they want to fully assess a deal.