Betting its good old fashioned foundation damage.You will want to have not only an inspector take a look, but you might see if you can find a foundation company or structural engineer to check things out and get you a quote, because most inspectors will just tell you its a foundation issue and not provide any background on the scope.Foundation issues are common in Texas, every house you will come across will have issues to some extent.

You should also have been and continually shopping local smaller banks and CU's working with their commercial lender on something that works, if you have some cash saved, a decent job/income, and a good credit score, you should be able to get fix and flip loans fairly easily from a small bank.

In this scenario -- they will make 52 payments of $250 a year, or a total of $13,000 (one extra rent payment).But, the implication of doing that seems rather unethical to me, unless you are letting them know you up front you are penalizing them for paying rent in that fashion.  

I should clarify that I the ARV is provably 105-110 conservatively and the mortgage (if you shop around) could be 80LTV, so your mortgage would be 88K.

The other draw is Cabela's, which has led to a boom in shopping areas.I also began looking in the Belleville area of Illinois, where my husband and I used to live: some really nice small towns there that are close to Saint Louis, MO.

The CE Shop is also good, plus they offer a lot of continuing ed courses.

I hate blasting it because it makes the deal less exclusive and makes investors feel like they are getting shopped around.

my understanding is that brokers typically first shop deals to  investors whom they've had previous dealings with, then to other brokers in-house, then to the general public. 

Ultimately, you may need to have some serious work done, but you can shop around for someone who is rated well on angieslist or other resources.

Here, if you can shop for triplexes and fourplexes in the $300k+ range, the cash flow tends to be a lot higher.