(Forbes)Lower business & lifestyle costs than others.Amazingly affordable real estate for investment.Single-family, duplexes, fourplexes.3-year appreciation forecast of 9.1%.Around 45% of the residents are renters.The growing fuels the rental demand.San Antonio is also known for its low cost of living.Closed sales increased by 14 percent year-over-year.Compared to June 2019, San Antonio's average price of a home increased by 3%.Year-to-date, the average price has shown an increase of 5% to $278,395.In a year-to-date, year-over-year comparison, Bexar County faired well compared to Travis (-10.7%) Harris (-4.9%) and Dallas County (-6.8%.)Each of these counties indicates a decrease while Bexar county shows a promising a 3.4% increase.As predicted, June has shown to be a strong buying season.

Zoning petitions, architectural challenges, contractors, etc. 

@Kiet Tran if they are both strong rentals, why not both at the same time with the same lender? 

My background is architecture and construction, and I feel I most need to learn more on the business/legal/tax side of the process.

I would strongly consider self managing using the tools that Vrbo and Airbnb provide.Drop all this in a spreadsheet and see what the net profit could look like with a best and worst cast scenario.

BP is full of great content, so I strongly recommend you to have a look at the following resources: 1.

I'm slowly become familiar with the place, strongly suggest you do the same.

Taking out a long term hard money loan on a home in the West End that you expect to gross $4k because you expect strong appreciation... honestly there are a lot of red flags to me on this one, but then again I don't know all the details.

I also would strongly consider getting trash pickup weekly for an apartment building as trash every two weeks sounds like a terrible idea. 

I believe the operator is trying not to break any rules but also strong arm the price up but I am still newer to this so I wanted to see if anyone else has any advice on this.Thank you!