With a growing energy and financial industry, Houston continues to attract high-level buyers looking for a balance between urban living and tranquility.Dallas-Fort Worth: The Dallas-Fort Worth region is experiencing a boom in luxury properties.

Too many in your shoes focus all of their time and energy on preparing for the liability event and fail to address the items in their day to day business that can actually prevent liability exposure.

thanks, Edward Edward,While you certainly can acquire more properties and growth with leverage, you can also crash and burn if the real estate market turns against you.There is a pretty well known Bigger Pockets commentator who suggests you don't even make money until your down payment has been returned through cashflow.

.: Quote from @James Hamling:When talking on historically the US was a-ok on kick-the-can economics, REMEMBER, 60 of the last 100 years Europe and Asia were in some state of burning rubble.

You're asking someone to spend a lot of time and energy to share what they've spent years - maybe decades - learning and developing.

What it does do is put the burden on the user to be more energy efficient.  

They are also two zip codes you can get burned on really easily if you don't know the neighborhoods and don't spend the time doing your due diligence.  

Heavy duty, old fashioned machines that don't have motherboards or other electronics that tend to burn out.  

If more investors spend a fraction of the time and energy spent worrying about asset protection and do the things on a daily basis that prevents liability exposure, plaintiffs attorneys won’t eat as well. 

Also, consider tax credits and incentives for energy-efficient upgrades or first-time homebuyer programs that could lower your costs and improve your return on investment.In summary, starting in California with an FHA loan and considering partnerships and LLC structures can set you up well.