It looks like you and your family are in a strong financial position and in a good spot to grow into the multifamily space and get some bigger deals! 

Black Mountain is really great, and the rent rates are strong, but it's pretty hard to win a deal there.

There was another decrease from the preceding month but a strong continued increase from the previous year’s numbers.The City of Austin saw a change in median home price from $540,000 to $525,000, a month to month decrease of $15,000 but still a 28% increase from the previous year.

However, a strong company ethos coupled with employees who care, can out perform any service a veteran of the industry will provide if he no longer finds joy in his work.2.

I don't really notice too much change in the Winter months, maybe a bit of slowing in the number that move out, but parsing through many years of data, I don't see any identifiable patterns of slowing rentals when it gets cold and blustery. 0Having said that, I have been seeing extremely strong rent up in the past 3 months.

@Alex Tokmazeyskiy all of the suburbs you mentioned are strong rental markets.

The rental market in the surrounding areas are strong and have an equal if not lower entry cost than even using a FHA loan in the current market for the SFH.What would be the issue, outside of your paying someone else's debt off and not your own, with getting a couple multifamily units and leveraging into the area and house you want while paying rent?

They are also going to want to see some strong experience, especially on the larger deals. 

Add to that, the strong performance of suburban office, as companies are generally departing the city centers, retail confidence rising and people wanting to spend, and all of this will start moving money back out of multifamily and into office and retail again.  

I'm a little local handyman landlord just outside of Pittsburgh with a tight little self-managed C-class portfolio, for instance.Here, in low-rent single family and small multifamily, the name of the game is finding that one good old building with strong fundamentals going for it out of ten other true moneypit crapshacks that are really ready for the bulldozer.You get nowhere here unless you screen like crazy and put the people you rent to under a microscope.