I’m a Houston native and my office is close to third ward.  

I am a lifelong Chicagoland native (South Side, go Sox) and love being here.

@Miguel Bautista I’m a Nj native, and am seeking to leave here to invest elsewhere. do not move here unless you want to pay 5 digit taxes. too damn expensive for anything

It's a huge missed opportunity, I believe, given how many overseas investors have an interest in U.S. real estate.That said, your husband is a native-speaker of Spanish yet a real estate novice; I'm a 20-year veteran investor who is actively working on "el dominio del español."

These stocks are usually heavier on the dividends than other types of stocks as well.Because public REITs are stocks, they tend to react to the stock market - when the markets are down, public REITs tend to take a hit as well even if the properties within that REIT are doing well.

Have you thought about how you're going to react if / when a tenant trashes this house?

Your disposition reminds me of an analogy from some military experience: Let's just say I was a warrior in the US military and had some close encounters with not so friendly folks, we trained for a multitude of scenarios constantly, rehearsed over and over, ran drills for various tasks, planned and analyzed, and even agreed on what specific preparations would be made as well as form a consensus on how to strategically maneuver and react to the mission ahead, we over-prepared often, almost to a frustrating level; nearly every single mission we conducted (99%) all the planning and preparation was seemingly useless, as soon as any action stimulus began, chaos ensued, what I like to call organized chaos on our teams part, yet it wasn't the planning and strategic efforts made prior to the mission that enabled us, we always worked through the chaos with the fundamentals, the core efficiencies we had learned and trained, it didn't matter what rehearsal and plan we chose, it was the fundamentals that afforded us the opportunity to weather the chaos and react proficiently.

Always good to see another Bham native. 

Even an appraiser reacts to negative and positive design.I'd say go for it, it's not a bad looking place, EXCEPT for that big, blank wall.

Unless I have an electronic version of the contract -- if I have that, I delete it and adjust the paragraph accordingly.Bear in mind, my clients are buying commercial property, so I do not know how Sellers of SFH will react