Great investment market (REI) because of low cost of entry and rent/ownership ratio is strong.We have the largest medical center in the entire world with the leading cancer center that is a destination facility people come from all over to visit.Oh and I almost forgot, buy a place on the new Grand Parkway (Texas Route 99) because it is a game changing new toll road that is linking all the burbs like never before. 

Not to mention the bad taste it puts in the tenants mouth to have some ragged beat up fridge show up that stops working a week later only to ruin $200 worth of groceries. 

Sharon, you just had to enter into the conversation and ruin everything with legal matters.

As many of us know, "just a month" has a rather loose interpretation with some tenants.I have an "unauthorized occupant" clause in our lease, so there are consequences to the tenant of record if he overstays, but again - I just want a clear written agreement to memorialize the understanding of how long he may stay.We once granted permission for the father of our tenant to stay for a month in order to receive cancer treatments at a local hospital.

I think arrogance is like a jacket we wear and it ruins everything good that we can accomplish.  

I hope it doesn't ruin my future.

60,000 btu. over twenty guys were in home over 7 mths tracking in dirt ruined floors, blowing insulation over knob and tube wires!

It seems as long as I take my medication the chances of me dying from my bad genes is reduced drastically, but I wonder will I work another 5 years hustling to get more and more money than I need and then be diagnosed with cancer and given 1 month to live?

Now that the Hedge funds have ruined the renter pool in these cheap areas I view the cheap rental zips as toxic.

I had a dream last night that the foundation had shifted and ruined all the new wood floors (Profile Pic is of the living room).