Keep going at your pace and in 5 years you'll be doing well

Divided by your $25,000 investment = 23.9% cash on cash return.So even with the bad numbers we are getting now with expensive financing, your return will still out pace the stock market on an average year by a factor of 2 or 3 times.There are many other advantages.  

These are the areas that are developing at a moderate pace and can still expect to cashflow as rents increase too. 

I think the Fed chairman left the punchbowl out a little longer than past Fed chairpersons would have.I guess the short of it is this- if inflation continues at the current pace, owners of real estate should generally be beneficiaries of that inflation, and renters will generally suffer.

Also, I learned that the city, power company, and other utilities operate very much at their own pace and it has nothing to do with your needs or desires.

The house could also use some updates & it would be easier for me to do while we are living in it since I could work at my own pace and do much of the work myself.

Houston Real Estate Highlights in August- Single-family home sales rose 3.9 percent year-over-year, with 8,679 units sold – the second biggest one-month sales volume of all time;- On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are running 3.1 percent ahead of 2018’s record pace;- Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes edged up from 49 to 52 days;- Total property sales rose 4.1 percent, with 10,375 units sold – the second greatest one-month total property sales volume ever and only the second time in Houston real estate history that the total has surpassed 10,000.- Total dollar volume increased 6.6 percent to $3.1 billion;- The single-family home median price rose 4.5 percent to $249,000, achieving an August high;- The single-family home average price was up 3.4 percent to $312,727 – also a record high for an August;- Single-family homes months of inventory reached a 4.2-months supply, up from 4.0 months last August and just slightly below the 4.3-months supply maintained in June and July.

If so, then depending on the pace with which you can increase the rent and the investment you need to do to meet the low-income requirements (if any), that will determine if the deal is even worth doing or not.

My point here is don't find reasons NOT to be an investor find ways to be an inverstor if when I bought my 1st place if I'd continud to buy at my current pace I'd have 400 units and a staff and a real business.

Cedar Hill seems to be growing but not at the same pace as it was in 1990,2000 and 2010.