You can get more cash, but you add risk and lose flexibility. 

We don't have any significant storms, floods, earthquake, wild fire or hurricane risks, which keeps insurance cost affordable.

Probably the hardest thing some of us ever do is give ourselves permission to risk failure to succeed. 

There is less risk involved in the cheaper properties .

So you missing that investors are well compensated for the risk associated with the various policies/regulations. 

Only large corporations can withstand this kind of risk.

Begin practicing deal analysis to understand numbers, and consider house hacking as a low-risk way to start.

If curious, here are the last two: Jan 2023: Multifamily Real Estate is At Risk of CrashingFeb 2024: Multifamily is at High Risk of Continuing It's Historic CrashI think that the title for my 2025 analysis (likely Jan/Feb publication will be something more like:Multifamily is Finally Going to Hit Rock Bottom in Q2/Q3 2025 - Get Ready to Buy a LOT of itAs usual, I like to publish my draft thoughts here to get input from key players in the space and these forums, especially folks like @Brian Burke, to see if I am missing any high level areas, before I get into the weeds and look at the data more deeply and regionally. 

there are multiple cities across the Midsouth that make for solid investments and you are still able to even see some cashflow even in today's environment without buying just straight up high risk properties. 

Just like any investment, it has risks.