I've been observing the Houston market with great interest.

Foreclosures are at their lowest in years (according to public radio news)  There's new construction and rehabbing going on all over the intown area (personal observation of number of dumpsters I pass on my errands)d) Do you have any property management company in place that you really love and could recommend me?

I'll call them the "Investor model" and the "Owner model".Here are some observations, do with them what you will.Investors seem to approach REI as an asset class, like stock, bonds, mutual funds or hard money lending.

yes you can get a lot of info on sites like these and other blogs, but what you're looking for is someone to sit down with you and take you through a deal, even just as an observer (i assume you'd like that).well that's not easy to find unless you're out there attending as many free seminars and investor clubs as you can.

I think you are spot on with this observation.

Then I collect them as a batch and rank them according to our rental criteria.There may be less ability to observe people and see what they are doing.

Tennant A is a member of a protected class and Tennant B is a white guy in his 30s; their stats are as follows:Tennant A; 700 credit score, monthly income of $4,000, no felonies or any other marks on the record, and two positive landlord references.Tennant B; 650 credit score, monthly income of $3,500, no felonies or any other marks on the record, and two positive landlord references.Subjective observations of each of the tennants are:Tennant A; showed up 20 minutes late to our scheduled showing of the property, the vehicle is a pit and obviously not cared for properly, dressed in pajamas, and a review of his social media revealed multiple crude and explicit posts.Tennant B; Showed up 10 minutes before he was scheduled to view the house, clean car, dressed professionally, and had minimal social media posts all of which were clean and polite. 

@Barry Pekin so observe the game from the sideline. 🤔.

I've been to the last two sherriff sales in our county but I just observed.

She claims to know this by observing sold prices she is familiar with and seeing them with inaccurate sold prices on Zillow.