I found it to be a huge help with cutting my learning curve down tremendously, I still reference the videos to this day.

She does a extremely thorough job and has helped me tremendously with my properties 

But my understanding is also that there can be tremendous tax benefits / write offs when it comes to real-estate.I am looking for more guidance from professionals on how to structure my investments and how I could potentially harness the power of depreciation and write-offs to legally save money on my active earned income.

BiggerPockets has helped me tremendously with respect to:- growing my local, regional and nationwide network- learning about different markets and strategies- finding potential partners and dealsI know you'll get a ton of value from BP as well!

New Braunfels is right in between the two cities and is growing at a tremendous rate.

I saw tremendous upside and partnered with my better half and another investor (Now our partner!)

There is a tremendous amount of information available to you here. 

the necessary repairs are as follows:  water heater missing, furnace looks old. paint all rooms, new flooring needed in most rooms, ( something i can do myself), recondition kitchen, replace entry doors. the house already has a newer roof and newer vinyl siding, virtually no work necessary on the outside. given my rehab skills, nothing will need to be contracted out, so i am able to save a tremendous amount of money on the rehab, which is why the following rehab number is so low.

Tax lien laws vary tremendously from state to state.

I can't say my profitability over the last 6 years was a resounding success, as I am sure if I invested in Manhattan, or the stock market, I would have done -TREMENDOUSLY- well.