Dumb renter, you come here asking for advice. You come here with no landlord experience. And are you still a renter here? If so you have not had to deal with any maintenance issues on real property and then you come here and ask people if it’s a good idea to buy and out of state rental, with no prior experience managing.

You choose to listen what you want to hear by those that say no problem…and yet you ignore the fact that briansd doesn’t work at a traditional salaried job to have time constraints you do. And spdrun that owns a 1/1 low maintenance condo in San Diego unlike a sfh you are considering. And btw, he is self employed with a much more flexible schedule.

Objectively, take a step back..do you want to hear what you want to hear and just want affirmation of the decision you already made or do you want a realistic opinion, and everyone that doesn’t say what you want to hear an idiot (mind you, you missed the boat here in San Diego)? If it’s the former, why bother asking then? You already made up your mind.

And the sort of negative type of reply that you don’t like to hear is exactly the same thing that BG would normally post on any other thread, despite have 0 experience with rental property. The difference? Ask yourself why you feel you will be more successful in Texas very riverside county?

That said, if you’ve made up your mind go for it. I am sure if it does t work out for you, it would be easy to ditch rental properties just like investments like stocks…or not…