I am in Australia so it may be different for you but I imagine not by much. 

I am currently in Australia but have lived in the South pretty much all my life.

I'm actually not in Houston now, I'm traveling fulltime, currently in Australia, but BP forced me to put something, so I used my parents' address. 

I remember going to one in late 2006/early 2007 at the Exhibit Grounds (right before the market crashed).

Maybe the wrong word, but he did exhibit good standard sales skills which I tend to interpret as needy prejudicely when they may just naturally Hustle which is a good quality itself.

Escalation offer example below:SPECIAL STIPULATIONS: The following Special Stipulations, if conflicting with any exhibit, addendum, or preceding paragraph (including any changes thereto made by the parties), shall control:Buyer's purchase price offer is $x with $x Seller's Contribution at closing; however, if Seller receives one or more higher NET offers before this offer is accepted, then this offer is increased by $x above the other acceptable offer up to $x.

I invest in multiple markets (Chicago, Cleveland and Australia) and thou it may seem bias I have seen the entry price of a home compared to the rents I'm able to attain you CAN NOT BEAT. 

I spent 12 years building museum exhibits around the Pentagon and National Defense University....we should connect.

The benefits of in house property management is the seller or turnkey operator still has skin in the game after purchase and can exhibit low costs for the long term investor. 

Not everything in the world lends itself to automation - and this is Exhibit #1.