Your name drives all of your marketing collateral, business card, URL, email, etc.I too was tempted to develop a quick and dirty name just to get it over with, but I paused and reflected on my time in the ad business and started developing a list of 50 potential names.

When Santa puts you on his Nice List permanently ,after you get him a better deal on vacation property in a nice warm areaWhen my wife is watching anything on TV when I get home she grabs the remote ready to hit pause......

The charts on page 11 would lead me to have great pause in making Houston RE investments.

If you simply want to pay your loan off as quickly as possible so you do not want a "pause" on your loan.

Listen while making eye contact, process what the seller is saying, pause for a bitDemonstrate Empathy.

It would be very tough to see one of those 100% increases you see after unemployment is at its highest, since we have unemployment reaching its lowest levels now, where prices tend to flatten, decline, or pause in succeeding years..CA unemploymentCA unemployment usually only gets as low as about 5%, and we're just about there!

Prob. more importantly to see if he's able to keep his wife when the money train pauses or dries up for a bit.

But that's something to worry about after you find your REI-friendly no/minimal overlays local lender - from what you've described, it sounds like you're on pause until you lock that down.

I will continue to evaluate TTP, but your experiences give me pause. 

I would push pause and ask myself a few questions before jumping into this.1) What experiences do you have that have prepared you not only for home-ownership but also being a land lord?