Light to moderate smoke damage to walls/ceilings can many times be sealed over and painted, but of course it all depends on the extent of it and the amount of time and condition of the environment since the fire.  

I have just arrived in the San Antonio area and will be staying the month.I'm buying beer / whiskey for any investors, contractors, lenders, and any other real estate (or alcohol) enthusiast, who wants to sit down and chat San Antonio, Lubbock, Austin, and even Dallas DFW real estate.I'm here for work conferences but I also plan on learning a lot of RE, and trying a ton of great food and drink.Look forward to meeting you.

Just so you know most people would not consider a 9% passive investment yield in today's environment to be a "boring low-yield" fund, but rather a moderate/fair yield for a passive investment (especially when compared to alternative assets).

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Im not sure i agree with Thomas S. post yesterday and my post was edited by moderators...  

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I'm moderately knowledgeable about the finance side (my partner handles the finances for our business) I'm considering building a new home for my personal residence, but I've never done it before and I don't have experience coordinating a new home into a successful project.

If so, my apologies to the moderator. 

After a discussion one night with some alcohol involved between two people that had no idea how to invest in RE, we decided we'd invest in real estate.

Mostly you will see that you might have Class A or Class AE and that is moderate risk flood zone and then there are the striped areas where there maybe houses but putting an addition in that area will be hard to clear with zoning.