If not, and you find that dealing with contractors or the time consumption is more than you want, then find another method

I also live in Sugar Land,  Do you plan on investing in Ft Bend County or in Harris County?

There's no point to sugar coat or inflate anything.

As a young investor, I would like to know your real estate investment strategies in Houston, particularly in Sugar Land, Missouri City, Richmond area.

Leveraging for consumption is a problem: it increases your burden without increasing your means. 

The sugar approach is always best but the salt shaker I always keep in the glove box if need be.

Since investing there, I am being drawn to look at some properties north of Independence towards Sugar Creek.

Are there websites which make mortgage balance available for public consumption? 

We have rainy season where it's a gurantee that 5 out of 7 days will have significant rain and we have very sandy soil so that sugar sand just acts like sand paper on laminate flooring.  

It also establishes an amount that is payed monthly into the Utilities fund to cover those utilities held in the landlords name.We provide the tenant with a copy of all bills for the utilities in our name so they have visibility into their consumption the same as they would if they held them in their own name.Every quarter (3-months) we reconcile the amount paid into the fund with the actual cost of the utilities consumed.