My children are suffering because I have to spend all my time working on getting information together for my lawyer and I can't spend time with them.

Why should the landlord suffer your lack of paying timely rent because you don't have money budgeted for issues such as this?

simply better to suffer this time and buy outside the city next time.

If you are talking about Midland/Odessa, yes it is very dependent on oil, but the other metropolitan areas aren't really that tied to oil and gas.As others have stated the economy in Texas is diversified now, and we aren't having sky high oil prices, they have been in the same trading range for many years now, we are just toward the top of that range now.North Dakota, that is an area that is growing crazy because of oil and gas and could suffer a setback if oil and gas comes down too much

They're selling a portion of the house to the insurance company and don't want to suffer thru rebuilding.

@Jessica Watson , with oil prices dropping, the Bakersfield market might suffer and that might create a buying opportunity.  

More than two months ago my home suffered water and mold damage because of a water leak.My insurance company sent a cleanup crew to begin the remediation process, but they disregarded proper procedures and exposed our entire home and all contents to mold spores beyond what was damaged.  

I wouldn't recommend buying new Dewalt tools though as their quality has suffered over the last 10 years.

So in a nutshell, you will be stressed out and suffer but I think you're in a unique position where you can leverage your high paying job to finance your real estate investments (like I do), a lot of work, a lot stress, but let me tell you once you're done and have that extra income is such a good feeling, if you make it happen, a few years from now you'll be patting yourself on the back.

I can suffer through a few people upstairs while my kids are little.