I have family in Houston, Dallas, and the Valley, I was networking with brokers in San Antonio, but the Taxes seem to be quite high as well in that State, although much favorable laws/regs on the landlord side.

You could arrange to have your cleaners accept the deliveries at the property or hire a local handyman to do same and even assemble furniture.

Here's the problem - in order to be fully dialed in the model needs to be unstable.

Put aside if the owner of the home is a family member. 

JimGo to the city’s assessor’s website and look up the property record.  

The idea of LTR in SFR is in my opinion the best place to start. 

MAREI's still here, we meet at the Double Tree on the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 6 to 9 and we have a meeting after the meeting.1st Meeting is FREE.We have generally 100 in attendance.Come out and check it out, join our community -Next meeting is February 11th, 2025

I publish a lot of HoltonWiseTV content on TikTok and all, but TikTok's monetization is far inferior to YouTube's.

@Joshua Simmons Congrats on starting the journey!

Quote from @Patrick Roberts: Angel oak and A&D mortgage are two of the bigger lenders that I know of who will do 2nd's on investment properties as of a few months ago.