Lessons learned, I didn't reveal the purchase price).

I am also new to investing but on reading lot of threads it is always prudent to budget for some big ticket items within first 2-3 years while reserves are still being built.A very thorough home inspection should reveal if any thing may be anticipated

Bingo, you have revealed the dirty little secret about low value garbage notes; there is little to no money to be made on them unless you get it for next to nothing...

Now I need to reveal that we have to pay for our meeting room. 

Google maps and Citydata won't reveal certain things on the ground. 

Totally agree mate; free market is the best path@Megan Phillips I think you have to pick the right times to reveal your true self.

You are once more revealing just how little you know about this work.

The profile pic is already done everywhere.I think the names thing is coming for everywhere as well.This is just pre-booking, the name/pic are revealed after a reservation is accepted.

The areas by the Gulf have some high insurance premiums that are capping the prices... so not just mortgage rates.It would be interesting to see the distribution of the national numbers on new home starts, if they are clustered in TX.Anyway, I think perhaps with that much general "movement," the housing market in TX (its a massive state anyway), isn't entirely frozen like other markets. i'm very supply-demand person when investing anything rather than price or rate so I always trying to understand what's going on behind the surface, for example look at how the inventory is shifting in the last 3 years reveals something interesting ... it's not just TX that has supply increased but also oklahoma and nebraska, I thought in 2019 it should be the other way around.

A 30 second google search reveals myself and wifes address etc.