You don’t ask the fat guy for fitness advice and you don’t ask the ford salesman for Chevy advice.

They accepted our lower offer which gives us a pretty fat buffer.

It’s cheap and masks any unwanted smells.

Professional cleaning during turnover is an expense that landlords are usually required to shoulder, and might be necessary even if the prior tenants thoroughly cleaned everything.Common things that tenants miss while cleaning:Leaving ANY (and I do mean any whatsoever) garbage or unwanted things behind.

Building passive income while learning the RE ropes and earning a fat paycheck as an EE is an awesome plan for financial success.    

I am planning to just have a very basic plan just incase we got hit by a bus...And a big fat bank account will help with your confidence.

I'm thinking I can later cash-out refinance into a loan (possibly a VA loan) to finance another deal and wrap the new mortgage so as to keep the installment payments in place and avoid hitting my retiring family member with a big fat tax bill. 

In addition, what if I attract unwanted attention to the other parts of the property that I strongly suspect aren’t permitted?  

Texas is full of fantastic "unwanted" rural land deals.

I try to contact them when they are about 30 days away from the sale.I then send them a postcard that says We Buy Unwanted Land with my information on it.