:•Martin J Saenz,"Note Investing Made Easier" & "Note Investing Fundamentals": •Fuquan Bilal, "Turning Distress into Success : The New Book for Wealth Building Breakthroughs and Enhancing Income Investments" & "Passion for Real Estate Investments": •Dave Van Horn, Real Estate Note Investing: Using Mortgage Notes to Passively and Massively Increase Your Income":•Jim Napier, "Invest in Debt: The "How To" Book on "Buying Paper" for Cash Flow":•Gordon Moss, “Performance Anxiety: Creating A Fortune Investing in Non-Performing Real Estate Loans”:

I see a deck that needs to be pressure washed and has some moss growing on it. 3.

No doubt the 'landscaper' i.e. gardener is working independently and therefore is 100% responsible, However most gardeners will not carry liability insurance, and then the neighbor can and will come after you.

@Nathan Killebrew“Id rather be a warrior in a garden than a Gardner in a war”.

Why not try stopping by a local garden center & asking what they would recommend & get prices (unless you don't have these in Texas & people go to Home Depot?)

They were upset at the thought of a year of construction and losing the view of greenspace/gardens on my lot.   

I think my first purchase will use an FHA loan (or some variant thereof) to buy a quadruplex in the central gardens area, but that is only my current line of thought and I'll try and be flexible if another opportunity presents itself.Anyways, that's me in a nutshell.

I’ve got a SFH and it’s got a small front and side yard but the back yard has a chain link fence and is big enough that all of my tenants for the past 3 years have had a vegetable garden and there is plenty of room that if any of them had had children there would be enough space for them to spread out and play.

Hey @Stephen Moss - there's always a handful of RE events happening every month in the city. 

Right now a lot of plants are on sale at garden centres.