In Texas, there’s no state income tax on rental income, but LLCs have formation and annual fees.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

Adding to Trevor's step 5 -  create a detailed SOW. 

A good REI bookkeeper will help keep everything neat and tidy throughout the year so you can make educated decisions in your business, potentially creating more profit and less headaches.

You can't genuinely expect other cities to not try to create the infrastructure, job desirability, living conditions to impede such progress.

This has created a "shared driveway" with the neighbor making an ugly curb appeal, not to mention cutting their lot in half.

This will create your new basis.From an operational perspective, you might want to touch up a few things on the place to make it more rentable. 

It's not a sound way of doing business, especially if you hire some random VA to call for you in an area they know nothing about.Agents should always be building their sphere and creating warm inbound marketing from social media, events, and meetups instead of doing spray and pray.

There is simply no substitute for creating relational capital. 3. 

What I wrote above does not create an attorney/client relationship between us.

Once you're ready, create a goal (e.g., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.