Consider the significant work it will take to build a customer base and then having to start over after each deployment or PCS and...unless you're Air Force, in which case @John Ford's ribbing applies.

Thats why taxis are now mostly Toyota Prius instead of the Ford Crown Victoria.

My business partner is fond of saying that real estate education teaches students how to build a car pre-Henry Ford, when the industry should be teaching how to be Ford.

The increasing population, 5 military bases, over 16 colleges & universities, 2 major medical centers, proximity to Eagle Ford, and the fact that it's first major city north of the Mexican border all help make this a healthy market for investors

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I really don't want another job, but I've got it now.Specialization:Why don't SFH investors learn from Henry Ford with the assembly line concept?

For you folks not in Texas, what John means is "CD" areas where there's not great schools and not the best crime rate, don't even bother doing a lease optionIf you want to deal with nice owners that are intelligent, well-educated, they want to sink their feet for five years or more in a good neighborhood, good schools, go into "AB" areas and go after expireds, landlords, listed houses, for sale by owners, and talk to "we buy houses" people that have leads that are thrown away due to low equityIf you get the product right meaning a four bedroom two bath, quiet street, something that people really want, then filling it with the tenant buyer is quite easy, and making your 3 to 5% is a lot easier if the product is rightThink of it like the car business: you've got a Ford Fiesta on a car lot, and a Toyota Camry.

Do these tasks in this order....a) Go to your local REI meetingb) Stay away from the "big talkers" who act like they should be showing you a 1986 Ford Taurus.

I do love classic cars, I’ve got some experience too because my uncle restores old fords and i hep him often.

i actually heard Ford is extremely business friendly with doing car loans and leases.