Our interest rate is static during the amortization unless there is a "significant change in prime causing material change in the loan and/or hardship to the lender".

This works OK for relatively static and simple investments like a private placement or crowdfund, but can become rather cumbersome and expensive with a more time sensitive and transaction intensive asset such as a rental property.

Don't paint everybody with one brush.

I brushed him off for about 2 years and they are slowing buying everything up around me and I had no idea. 

Some of you who never troweled concrete or scooped JC out of a bucket or dipped a brush in a can of polyurethane act like your rental properties are harem virgins, and there are plenty of judges who don't know the first thing about property maintenance who are perfectly willing to back up any silly claim as long as a contractor submits an invoice.You don't know what you don't know if you don't investigate.

Regarding bear: there was a case last summer of a fishing guide in AK who got charged in dense brush by a Grizz and was able to stop it with a few rounds from a pocket 9 using +P, point blank so its possible although not recommended (12 gauge with slugs, 30.06, .454 etc would be better obviously, but a .9 in the pocket is better than a bazooka in the truck). 

Don't just brush over negative reviews without looking into them.

I don't know Austin well. but I do know Austin is basically the highest priced and I think coolest city in Texas at least I have been told.so it could go up in leaps and bounds.. and keep in mind in these areas again its not like the mid west were rents are basically static and have been for the 20 years I have been funding deals all through the mid west.. rents on the west coast and MAYBE in hot markets like Austin could go up 400 a month in a few years and now its break even... unless you can own A LOT of doors small cash flow is just not all that appealing what is a few hundred a month on 2 houses going to do for you..

Primer, paint, trim paint, ceiling paint, basement paint, brush/rollers/trays, Caulk/Sealant and Misc.Or my example house this came in at $1,100.00.11.) 

@Chris Youssi Hey.. don't paint all of us with that same broad California brush!