It was the better choice. 

During the recent period of low interest rates I acquired some rentals with a 15% down payment in order to stretch my cash further toward down payments on additional properties.This helped with the down payments and my math showed that even with a little higher interest rate compared with 20% down and the PMI until I was able to remove that this would still be the wiser choice. 

Inventory is now very substantially above the extreme lows seen in recent years, when inventory in the Austin area fell below 1 month (very extreme imbalance between demand and supply) for a sustained period.Kendall Garrison, CEO of Amplify Credit Union, recently said, “The good news is that we are moving toward a more sustainable level of inventory, which will provide price stability for sellers and more choices for buyers.

Whether that be a particular strategy or the ins and outs of your market and/or asset class of choice. 

To those naysayers that are calling out "conflict of interest" and "huge markups", it is simple enough to offer your maintenance services as an opt-in choice.

I may switch to a 5% conventional loan to avoid the risk of failing the self-sufficiency test.

Hey @Matt Owens,Congrats on getting your finances in order and narrowing down your market choices!

LLCs are for protection primarily so just creating one and putting it on your lease, isn't sufficient to truly protect your interests.

It was clear from the video that this new law attempts to prevent wholesaling entirely, and Pickren feels that the interpretation of the law is sufficiently wide enough that any marketing for the assignment of a contract will fall of under the definition of this law. 

Because dual agency is an impossibility (I’m a lawyer) and if I want to see one property I don’t want to be tied to an agent simply because I wanted to see a different property.The listing agent’s fiduciary duty to his seller client should be sufficient for the listing agent to just do a no agency showing agreement with the potential buyer.