Everybody keeps saying it is a numbers game.

Safer area of the Hilltop and the owners keep up with the mainteance of their property.

Keep saving as much as you can.

Hundreds die every year from it.Yet we keep getting into these metal caskets day after day, year after year.

Just keep that in mind as you choose your best exit strategy.

Keep in mind in TX you likely won't be able to get title insurance for 2-3 years on a tax sale property, so not a good idea to spend money until then.

Keeping the properties separate is mostly for the different depreciable lives and it wouldn't matter a whole lot when you eventually go to sell the property.

I don't want to interrupt my cash flow and I don't want to keep dealing with the damage.

We ultimately decided to keep the other property and slowly renovate.

The income is the same, the difference is how hard you work to achieve it.Parting thought, I also purposefully lag the top of the rental market in my personal portfolio...if a property I have owned for 4 years was rented at $900 and has a good resident then even though the value of that property may be $1250 I am still going to put this specific resident at $1050 so both the resident and my portfolio are winners each year and we have incentive to keep it that way.