Starting a real estate business anywhere comes with its challenges, and Texas is no exception.

Except it's the 10 hour deals with Justin.

And you can tailor it to you, so 1) You certainly don't have to charge 100% while vacant (dependent on bldg. layout, thermostat access, etc.) and 2) You can tailor the Gas/Electric as you have brought up so maybe 50/50 all except 60 unit 1/40 unit 2 for electricity... etc. 

What you do for one, you do for all without exception.  

Reliable tenants are the exception, not the norm.How do you target reliable tenants?

I like that idea -- This should work for most properties except in person auctions.

You can read about it here.This seems to be just another up-front money scam except one level up and for slightly bigger dollars.

not to be discouraging, but if you don't already have experience, i think trying to build for your very first property is going to be exceptionally difficult.  30K just is not a lot to work with. 

However, you CAN choose to have it taxed as a C Corp on form 1120 or an S-Corp on Form 1120s as you see fit.There is one exception to filing a two member LLC as a disregarded entity.

You write well (except for the "eye trouble") and appear to be intelligent enough to test through much of a degree.