Hi Everyone,I recently bought a fixer-upper in the Garland area and found a safe hidden in the wall in the master bedroom.

Step3: As soon as we can, after moving into our second home (unsure of exact timeframe), use a portion of our saved up ~150k to get a third, cheaper home in Garland TX using a conventional loan and rent it out, plan would be to use this home for some cashflow.

@Cornelius Garland That is a really good point!

Quote from @Cornelius Garland: Quote from @Mike Schorah: I heard that you need to send out $10k in direct mail to land a deal in this economy.Direct mail got me my first deal in 2015 and it isn't going away.

Somehow, City of Garland had NO RECORDS for the single meter!

Garland, Rowlett, Bridgeport.

@Rachel Deering If you want to buy a primary residence you can eventually turn into a rental, I'd look for something in the $125-200k range where the monthly rent is close to 1% of the purchase price or better (for example a $150k house that rents for $1500 per month).Not sure what part of Dallas you are in, but you can find this in parts of East Dallas, Garland, Richardson, Rowlett, Allen, Farmers Branch, Carrollton, etc.If you need a good realtor for when you re-list in the spring, send me a PM.

Agree with the duplexes in Richardson/Garland especially with one or two streets in an otherwise SFH neighborhood.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5502-Loving-Dr-Garland-TX-75043/162576389_zpid/?

Focus for us has been Garland and Mesquite but also Fort Worth.