One thought if Scottsdale still owned the notes was, see if we can buy them at a discount and make a spread on re-selling them, but having seen that interview, you're probably correct that they had already sold them on anyways, keeping that spread themselves (which never got back to investors!

It also is helpful to have a California LLC in case you ever sell that property and move into another state so that you do not need to form a new LLC altogether with new operating agreement, just re-register in the new state as a new foreign LLC.

I am eligible to re finance my VA loan and use that.  

I ended the offer to rent to the tenant on December 1st and didn't receive any communication from LMHA until December 15th when they tried to schedule the inspection...that's 45 days to process a voucher.We had another home pass inspection on November 5th and we hadn't "stopped and waited" for LMHA because it had never been a major issue before so we let the tenant move in...LMHA announced on November 15th that the tenant voucher needed to be re-evaluated by LMHA and that the rent rate needed to be adjusted (The story was the "Administrator A" reviewed and approved it but since they had resigned, now we had to wait for "Administrator B" to do it.

Hi, I'm new to passive RE investing in US.

Am interested in starting my RE journey in Houston and would like to have an idea of some up-and-coming neighborhoods to target.

@Jay Hinrichs how about one stop shopping at Costco.My other thought is that RE brokers should not cooperate with other brokers but sell their own listings for 3% and handle the financing.

Does anyone have any recommendation other than ‘contact a RE attorney?

Thanks for your advicea nd I am going to re-make that list w/my additional duties I have done to add to the list :)Quote from @Drew Sygit: @Megan Jones many bosses are so busy with their own work, they fail to fully understand what their staff actually does!

For me, start with either the property who's lease expiry is furthest out in the future OR property that has seems like it will be easiest to manage.3) From what I have heard, rent has really moved upward in GVSC - I'd call a couple RE Agents or property managers that have rental listings in the area and tell them your situation / ask them to send you closed rental comps.