If you're single and want more entertainment and a faster-paced lifestyle, I would prioritize living closer to the city centers of any of those cities above.

Recommend you use BRRR and lifestyle as your determinantsI love Texas, love Houston and would pick Texas over Florida for our REI, but we don’t do BRRR.  

@Jay Amin, if I could live in a hypothetical world, I would only invest for cashflow, since net worth is irrelevant to sustaining a lifestyle I want and paying bills.Unfortunately, in the real world, the two are very closely tied, as I referenced in my post.  

Depending on your lifestyle, their location and type,etc. 

This enhanced the marketability of the property and stabilized the income streams.

The moment you ignore / put aside the numbers, in favor of emotional attachment to a property, you're making a lifestyle choice, not an business investment!

Understanding the scope and timing of recent renovations will provide insights into the property's overall condition, potential maintenance costs, and any value-added enhancements that may have been made.Hope this helps! 

Renovating our primary residence makes a lot of sense for our lifestyle and goals.

I know I can deduct passive rental property losses form my active income (I make less than 100k)Some other info:-I have about $15k in reserves-Next year I won't be working in the States, or for an American company, but I will be receiving a W-2, but can offset those taxes due to the following:"The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, which allows you to exclude $105,900 from your foreign earned income on your 2019 US taxes and $107,600 on your 2020 US taxesThe Foreign Tax Credit allows you to offset, dollar-for-dollar, the taxes you paid in your host country with your US taxesA Foreign Housing Exclusion which allows an additional exclusion from income on US taxes for certain amounts paid for household expenses that occur as a consequence of living abroad"-I'm a single guy with no family, so my lifestyle is pretty flexible.If you need any more info, please just ask! 

And for sure if your going to invest with the idea that cash flow is the main benefit IE live off of it then scale is important takes a lot of doors at 100 or 200 a month to make an appreciable dent in ones life style while tying up a boat load of your borrowing power..