And many of them are total scams that never do any of those things for you and just charge you to pay your bills for you.Prices are softening in the DFW area, and with interest rates set to rise I think prices will continue to bump along or maybe even decline in some areas. 

No, I am looking, but so far I think they are all scams.

Looking at real numbers, 3.75% interest is actually more like 80% interest after 30 years and is front loaded (WHAT A SCAM!)

She went off saying how everyone of us so called "investors" are just a bunch of scam artists looking to twist the arms of property owners in hopes of stealing their property for a ridiculous price and then make money off of it.  

Are you sure that that department of human rights really called you ... and it wasn't just that tenant or friend who called, pretending to be that department to scam you out of 1 months rent?

In any case, posting on craigslist will only get you scammed.

I hear there are a lot of private lending scams out there.  

We were very very careful to make sure this wouldn't happen because of all the interest in the property and it's common for people to pull these shenanigans to get a property under contract and accepted for a ridiculous price and then later back out and reduce the offer for the "appraised value" so we wrote a special clause into our counter proposal.On top of all this the roofer that I had hired took my $1k and ran off with the material money and also hired and scammed another roofing company that tore off the existing roof.

So, you get a shady tenant who games the system, cheats landlords as a practice, and a company that helps them with the scam.

Reach out to them to get copies.I think the IRS help companies are scams so do not try to go that route.