Much of FL has cash flowing areas for rentals and if your area doesn’t then there will be a good area for investments within an hour drive.

The major cons include high property taxes, difficulty finding positive cash flow (especially when using property management), and slow rent growth due to, among other things, rising supply of multifamily units being developed all around town.

So, with high demand and a fixed/limited supply of real estate, I'd expect Cedar Park to do better than the Pioneer Crossing area in appreciation and rent growth when buying a resale home over the near and middle terms.

A good article on SFH... mentioningLink: https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/single-family-rental/best-counties-buying-single-family-rentals-2018/Takeaways: 78% of owners are mom & pops that only one 1-2 rentals, SFH growth markets.

I love driving for dollars.

Lots of growth with the planned expansions at the school.

The tenants have zero incentive to help you out , so honestly if they are blocking your drive , just tow them.

My partners and I started in smaller cities and towns (Waterloo, Edmonton, Hamilton), but we've been consolidating our efforts in Toronto over the past 5-7 years.There is a trade-off between cash flow returns and equity growth and when I started investing in the early 2000's, I was solely focused on cash flow and cap rates.

You and Steve Lloyd were the speakers at my first REIA meeting and it's been greatly inspiring in my growth since then. 

As per growth, everything is growing North and West.