If any of your properties are discovered by City officials to be unregistered, you can receive an administrative citation for failure to register; this penalty can cost $100 or more per property.

I like the idea of a different city that give me a lot of the benefits of San Diego without the high cost. 

Its not near any major cities where someone might look at it as a long play for path of progress.Another option might be to see if a solar farm or wind farm company might be interested once its clear cut. 

Market Growth: Texas cities like Austin, Dallas, and Houston have experienced rapid growth, but is the market becoming oversaturated?

The city came out and determined that the problem was actually on the city property, and not ours (the tree was outside our property line and so were the cracks in the pipes.)

@Brandon VanTuinen  FYI the appreciation rate in City of GR is around 6% right now, so you're making around $24,000 a year just living there.

If you pick a random OOS city to buy in, based on numbers an agent or wholesaler is telling you or "it's a great market to invest in" and don't know the area, prepare to have lots of cash reserves and to lose money especially Class C. - what's a great market to invest in for one person isn't for another investor.

City and County websites 11.

You'd probably need to talk to a contractor and the City. 

My city does allow month to month rental.