I live in Asheville, NC and also have experience/ spend time in Austin, TX and New Hampshire.

The goal is to change careers to something that allows me to decide my hours (in the process of now), become a landlord, and finally spend more time with my kids and family. 

Would love to travel there more often & spend more time down there. 

Quote from @Devin James: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: for us we do very little marketing we rely on MLS what we do to compete is spend an extra 10k or so per house with upgrades other builders simply wont do..

Our all in construction was $360k (If we had to do it again, we wouldn't spend the $10k to install the fence where we always do for our other investment properties.

How much you can spend will determine it. 

I spend all day sourcing deals now.

Get educated and make an educated guess on where to spend money.

What is not known is how much time and effort you spend to run this business as if you take the $85k and minus salary(ies) to run it, then what would it net gain you?

Outside of real estate, I enjoy spending time with family and friends and convincing myself I am getting better at golf each year!