I'm going to exclude my personal residence from this because I don't view this as an investment, I need a place to live.Excluding my primary residence my current breakdown is 47% real estate 53% stocks/cash. 

The next objective after locating a target market, would be to determine if your primary goal is appreciation, cash flow or a little bit of both.

Second, Texas also allows Texas homeowners to do cash-out refinance their primary residence.

we bought our primary resident property, and ended up finding the drainage system is broken after a year or so, and paid close to $30k to completely reroute some part of the whole system. 

They will be your BOG (boots on the ground) to be able to view the property.I will say that I did buy my current primary residence abroad and it wasn't fairly complicated, I would just do some things differently than I had initially anticipated if that makes sense.

Property taxes and insurance costs are best obtained through local county websites or reaching out to insurers directly for quotes specific to the area.Tools like BP Pro and Reventure can be helpful for an overview, but it’s a good idea to validate their data against primary sources to ensure accuracy.

Clearly, they failed in their primary responsibility to you as their layer of due diligence was a mere gossamer like patina.

.: Is it legal, per the IRS, to rent my primary home back to myself? 

Im basically looking for advice on how i can save as much on taxes as possible.Part of the property is your primary residence, which does not qualify for 1031 Exchange treatment.

In my area this is the primary permit that is required that is virtually never got.