I have meticulously designed, built, decorated, furnished, cleaned, stocked with hotel-like essentials, cleaned again, and published my property as a vacation rental on AirBnB.

Our Naperville school district properties in Naperville and Aurora have gotten us high enough rents to be worth it.

There are never shortages of people who want to be in good school districts and areas of low crime. 

Essentially what I am looking for is maybe some concrete first steps into buying my first Duplex.

This will give you an idea of where Appraisal District is coming from. 

It essentially makes any unit a coin operated machine.Link: https://www.smartcoinbox.com/c...

One of my criteria will be to only purchase in reasonable to cheap property tax areas but I also want to buy in areas that are safe and have decent school districts. 

For resell and rent demand of course school districts are an important factor.I hope this helps, please reach out on any questions. 

You are essentially asking the BP community whether the asset in CA should be held onto because it fits your life plans a decade from now, or whether the asset in CA should be sold because it fits your investing strategy goals today.

My strategy is to focus on strong school districts to use as an anchor for areas I'm looking to target.