You can find higher ROI (on paper) here and probably in other cities…but the probability of actually collecting rent significantly decreases.

Raising the rent and value add on my higher quality properties will get me more net rental income than continuing to buy. 

While your chances are higher if you have a mentor, your chances will also increase if you execute tips 1-4.

In fact, the median sales price of a single-family home in the Austin metro is about 47% higher than it was at the start of 2020.

But it's also mildly higher maintenance. 

I could likely see many things from the TCJA being made permanent, mostly procedural items like the higher standard deduction and child tax credit (Plus eliminating exemptions).

More people see your property, the higher likely hood of securing a tenant in a quick amount of time (all things equal).

You’ll probably pay a higher sales price and a higher interest rate as well. 

I’ve had several investor clients go with a new (to me)/ unproven lender because of a slightly lower rate promise only to get burned by that lender (closing costs were higher, appraisal costs much higher and appraisal was a nightmare, main point of contact gave us the clear to close as we passed our financing contingency then just before closing someone from the underwriting department we previously didn’t know existed said we need a few more days and seller didn’t agree because they had a higher backup offer, jeopardizing the earnest money and losing the property, etc).

Lower end wines are losing favour to higher end wines despite lower end wines outpacing high end wines of volume growth.