While it is true that Texas boasts higher property tax rates, you make up for it with the most undervalued RE in the Nation.

We have learned to make any contracts for roofing repairs more detailed than just tear-off & replace.We inspected a potential duplex that boasted of a new roof only to discover that the absentee landlord had obviously contracted a bargain priced 'fly by night' roof repair.

Trinity Mills does not boast strong demographics, there are several lower income housing properties just east and a decent amount of crime, although not extreme.Looks like Nitya has experience doing this exact reposition before, but mostly in Houston.

Hi @Reggie Maynard,Yup, really gotta watch that stuff.For live deals, I type emails with the 'to' field blank, come back five minutes later, re-read it, and only at that point do I add the 'to' field and hit send.When someone asks me in writing to share certain details about their creditworthiness with the listing agent to help get the offer accepted, you don't want me to accidentally boast that you have a 678 FICO when in reality you have a 778... caught that one double-checking just this morning!

But I often read of people boasting about "getting something for nothing" and it always rubs me wrong. 

No doubt, the majority of these posts are written with good intentions but we all make mistakes (including me) so as the old axiom says, “trust but verify.”Be especially careful of undaunted advice and knowledge spewed by people who boast their credentials via “personal testimony,” because that is just what it is... personal testimony.

I can't promise that I'll be able to publish any conculusions - BUT, I will point out some very public data about the site, and let you draw some conclusions on it:The "New Member Introductions" tab has less than 15,000 topics.BiggerPockets boasts over 218,000 members on its homepage.One may infer that under 7% of members have introduced themselves in that forum.What does that tell us about the success rate of that 7%?  

I could however as you say ,put effort in taking a test rather than boasting a guru, but that's not a viable option for most people and for me.

These homes boast so much history, that we fall in love with that, but the "integrity" and the cost to maintain that, may outweigh the lower cost.

I felt extremely prepared as I had a sold foundation of knowledge (much to the thanks of many posters on this board) and I've read numerous times about the importance of these meetings.This REIA boasted a reputation as the states largest and most accomplished organization that has transcended the boundaries of other organizations (a paraphrase).