My wife and I did two separate RV trips for several weeks last year to explore different parts of the state.

If you're not looking to sell your current home prior to buying a new one, lenders will look at your current DTI on both home mortgages, not on the future DTI when you already have a lease/tenant renting your current home.If your income cannot justify having two mortgages that lenders are comfortable with, you may have to explore other ways to do this.

The strategy of house hacking kept coming up, but there are not a whole lot of podcasts, or articles, or tips on how to make that work with a family and kids.

We were getting ready to make Waco our next market to explore for an investment, and almost completely backed out after seeing the info about last year's City Council ruling.

Read books, listen to podcasts, read articles, connect with local real estate investors.

Gotcha - will explore that next time. 

Linked a couple of Investopedia articles on the differences below if anybody is curious. 

If you guys have any good articles Using such method please include them in a reply.

I have been diving myself into the BP forums, videos, and education articles learning about BRRRR.

The official plans are here:https://www.cedarparktexas.gov…Original article linked here:https://www.bizjournals.com/au...