Even google doesn’t have a street view of the house, so I need to be conservative here.Do I have any leverage in this situation?

If they don't actually own anything here, it's likely they will tell you advice that just doesn't really apply to the market or they won't understand which neighborhoods are what (neighborhood grades and street by street as they change).

Hey all, recently started investing into RE with my first home in my hometown in DFW after graduating from College and recently purchased my second down the street.

I like 38109 but you have to know the neighborhoods down to the streets.

@Jay Hinrichs Gave me a good suggestion to ask the BP community if anyone has partnered with Y Street Capital Victor Menasce before as a Limited funding Partner.  

You will often see this represented in your term sheets as Wall Street Journal Prime or WSJ Prime +xyz.

They are the ones that rezoned every side street to RS-3 which does not allow anything more than 1-2 units.

This is what Wall Street does to deploy tens of millions into a marketplace quickly. 

Looking into the STR market, i would suggest a couple things to include into your property search. 1) the STR market is very saturated here so look for something unique or offer unique amenities to your guests, this will help your property stand out 2) different set of rules for properties located within city limits vs without i.e. outside city limits doesn’t require a permit which the city is cracking down on the amount of STRs on any given street or neighborhood 3) HOA is a big deterrence as a lot of HOAs don’t want any rentals of less than 30 days so an in depth search into covenants and by laws would be doing your due diligence.

I got lucky and rented the developers house :) I also owned 4 rentals in Patrick farms just across the street north of Reunion.. if you are dead set on MS thats what I recommend anything else you invest in going to be a crap shoot at best.