Governor Greg Abbott today touted Texas as America's undisputed jobs leader for the third year in a row, with more jobs added in Texas in 2024 than in any other state.

These are top drive-to destinations for much of the Southeast, so short-term rentals here can generate solid cash flow, especially during peak seasons.The area is also seeing steady growth, with more infrastructure and amenities being added to support visitors and new residents.

If the answer is yes, then it's a no brainer to make minimum payments on your 2.8% interest rate mortgage, and use the funds that you would have paid extra to pay it down faster, to either invest in more real estate, the market, or anywhere else where you can get a ROI > 2.8%.If the answer is no, then feel free to aggressively pay it down as fast as possible, to become debt-free faster, and just have a large amount of money in savings or to splurge with.The bottom line is that your 2.8% mortgage is GOOD debt.

Costs before that (during remodeling) are added to the basis.2.

Since January I have added Introductory Calls as a means of growing my network.

Or add an extra garage.  

I think the big question is how badly do you want to keep the extra $50k liquid?

So I added one of my listings on booking.com and got my first booking coming up this week for 4 nights.

85LTV ask on a LTR rental is a tough ask, when adding an STR factor, nearly every lender will reduce max leverage by 5%. 

Quote from @Benjamin Bieber: Listening to the Bigger Pockets podcasts I hear the ads for rent to retirement all the time.