However, I am open to a greater area than just Austin and would be willing to search anywhere between Austin and SA or north to Round Rock, etc. 

. - I would like to focus on B and C+ properties only.- Strategy is long-term buy and hold.- Purchase price to Rent ratio = 1% minimum- SFR to start off with, would consider multi-family in future based on performance/faith in team.- Minimum 1 purchase 2018.

If B- and below maybe you can offer one tenant lower rent to do it.

And finally, AC is trying once again to make a comeback...this time with the first Casino since the Revel opening in 2018 (Hard Rock) and Stockton University bringing a campus to AC (also set to open in 2018).Is anyone else investing in Gardner's Basin or considering it?

I wonder if they used a perforated pipe without the sock on it... my understanding is these usually have some crushed rock over a perforated pipe with the liner over it to prevent dirt plugging it up.

You can throw a rock and find deals in north city.

Those two features alone can be worth the cost of a rock star agent but yes, you can buy/sell RE without agents.

I feel like I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place and might lose a little either way.

Was that the Rock Spring house?

Kyle Baron In many of these instances you will spend more $ chasing down what is owed.Many people who flake like that don’t have a lot of money and as the saying goes: you cannot get water out of a rock.