Great opportunities to buy single family house and rent out the bedrooms.  

For your mortgage, a 30-year loan will give you lower monthly payments, which could be ideal while starting out.

That means they didn’t/can’t lose just one part of your return.

If it werent for the noise would you be okay with sticking it out in the house for a while?

Here are a few suggestions on how you can maximize the wealth of information available: Check out the blogs and podcasts, or take advantage of the search feature (magnifying glass).

Michelle Wang,With all due respect, you should make plans to be in another business once you're out of Real Estate Investing (Residential, Income Property).There are Members of our MassRealEstate dot net Association that come crying to me about similar situations as yours i.e.

As boring as accounting sounds, I think it's a great degree so check that out if you want to go that route.

Houston in particular be vary wary of flood zones and any potential historical water damage from the frequent flooding / hurricanes of just a few years ago. 

WAY cheaper than then thousands if not 10’s of thousands in extra interest. 

With a cost segregation study your building value will be broken out into many detailed components which will have lives of 5,7,15 and 27.5/39 year  lives instead.