You may have to look for a while and be patient, but these are stable neighborhoods with good potential and rising property values.  

Luckily I had a patient seller...If you are able to find a property that need less than $35k in repairs, the streamlined 203(k) is a good option and will have more lenders willing to work with you.

Dallas/Fort Worth is super hot right now so I don't know if it's time to start looking at another avenue for funds or if I just need to be patient.

What about cell phone/home phone (I live alone) or the google voice.I should have done this a couple years ago but work kept me in false sense of satisfaction and security.

From my past experience, I am confident that the company will handle this situation appropriately in such a way that they had done to my satisfaction in the past.

I've been patiently saving and researching for about 6 months and I'm getting a little "analysis paralysis".

Be patient.

I realize this may be a quite rhetorical question, but after how many years (and houses) would you say you got to a reasonably comfortable level of satisfaction where you could afford a decent lifestyle with some money left over to invest in a few more properties.

At GMAC we have a written gaurantee of customer service with a 97% satisfaction rating, compared to 67% in the industry.

These statues generally prohibit a lender’s deficiency judgment against a borrower (often in connection with a nonjudical foreclosure action) or limit a deficiency judgment to the difference between the debt and greater of the fair market value of the secured property (as determined to the satisfaction of the court) or the price paid at the foreclosure sale.