I am trying to spread out a bit to prevent everything from being in the same area . Job market , weather , base closing , earthquake or anything else that could potentially make it difficult if several of my properties were impacted . Currently use property managers and planned to do the same in Texas . Just need some ideas on costs so that I can plan properly for finding properties that will meet my criteria after factoring in insurance , taxes , PI , etc <| sep |> Depending on how far you are in German , I would say Dutchsimilar but not too similar . I would advise against learning Dutch if you just started learning German because it can be confusing and you may mix words . French , Brazilian Portuguese , Polish , or Swedish .