In terms of cash reserves outside of that we don't have anything substantial saved (our savings went to the earnest money) so our priority is to pay down the HELOC and increase income.

In terms of your comment "a lot of investors you may be competing with are goign to break even or even have negative cash flow initially". 

I would only rank 4-5 other US markets above Columbus in terms of opportunity and under-saturation with investors.

If it is cheaper to own, you may want to buy and even if you sell in 2 years (assuming the development is finished on time), you may still come out ahead in terms of selling the property vs paying someone else's mortgage.

With a month-to-month lease, a Landlord can serve a notice of change in terms of tenancy and modify just about any lease term, such as passing the cost of internet on to the tenant.  

The cost to evict, in terms of lost rent, vacancy, turnover costs, plus the work involved to secure a new tenant who ON AVERAGE will be WORSE than the one you would be evicting sounds counter-productive.

My wife and I are planning to move back to Texas and Tyler has us excited in terms of investing.

You can do DSCR loans or Hard money loans, where they only focus on how well the subject property performs in terms of the rental aspects or the ARV aka after repair value.

There's this term in book writing which goes along the lines: "the first one is for the trash," I mean since you're writing words which are being printed, and therefore irreversible, I think that there should be perfection in terms of grammar, spelling, etc.

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