.🔹 Profit Multiple Ways – You can rent the property for cash flow, sell the option at a profit, or buy it later at a pre-agreed price (often below market value).🔹 Great for Sellers & Investors – Motivated sellers can turn a vacant or hard-to-sell property into income while investors secure future deals without a huge upfront commitment.🔹 Ideal in Any Market – Whether home prices are rising or falling, lease options allow you to lock in today’s price while benefiting from future appreciation.Other creative strategies—like seller financing, subject-to deals, and the BRRRR method—can also open doors, but lease options remain one of the most powerful, low-risk, minimal cash out-of-pocket ways to build a portfolio.

The markets have changed quickly, and what worked 5 years ago may differ significantly from what will drive success today.

AirDNA – This is my go-to for market research.

We scan and analyze every new listing in an investor's target markets and send an email alert of high-potential properties based on their custom criteria. 

Congratulations @David Shaun - those are awesome numbers, and should hold up with the low liabilities, regardless of market. 

-why not pick a market closer to home? 

DFW is an amazing market.

But it goes to show everyone reading this that marketed projected returns are often the primary metric many investors look at.  

I recommend you make a video of you entering the unit and documenting exactly how it is found.

If you are doing unpermitted work, it’s either too small a project or you probably don’t want to spend the money.So the market for such inspectors is probably small.