Lots of relocation among the state - but demand still remains extremely high!

This again just highlights the extreme lack of inventory of quality starter homes in good areas.

Single family homes and small multifamilies are extremely high demand and escalating.  

Interest rates are extremely low.

We feel extremely fortunate to have made the decisions we have based on learning what we could from bigger pockets.Our problem now is that we would very much want to purchase one or two more homes but unfortunately as the main source of income, my job was eliminated this past May due to Covid.

pulling trigger on my first rental property is kinda scary so trying to do as much homework as possible!

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to decide what to go to college for.

I would suggest you proceed with extreme caution.

You'll want to find out if a sale triggers a reassessment (it does in some areas and not in others), when the next normally scheduled reassessment is, and how your tax bill will be calculated upon the reassessment.

But I went to a law firm and inquired about this list and a specific property from this list (it was a property with an extremely old house built in the 1880s in bad shape, in a not-great location,) and was told the property was free and clear.