Homes priced from $150,000-$250,000 stayed on the market less than 50 days on average, said ABOR's report.35,000 new jobs expected next year and the year after (no including if Amazon chooses Austin).  118 people are moving to Austin every single day and US News recently listed Austin, for the second year in a row, as the number one place to live in the US.   

I stay C+ and higher.

If this is the same house, stay away!

So during the option period and i am collecting rents from both units, I'm pretty much a landlord because utilities will have to stay in my name because the duplex has one electrical service and heating boiler.  

Stay a while rent it out get another one.

With a duplex, I will have a place to stay while I rent the other areas out. 

Some HOA's can be way overboard but those are few and far between.You might want to stay away from older houses and lower income tenants.

In this way every year to raise rent 3% the investor tends to stay in the bottom of the market rent levels.If the investor is paying for a property based on top market rents then that rent market has to keep going up very strong to compensate.

I’d stay away for now.

Correction: Bk court lifted stay so that I could foreclose after I gave them proof of Quitclaim prior to loan modification.