No presence of termites, just didn't like the old moisture damage on a house built in 1900's.

Now I am merely speaking from speculation and vicariously at this point because my market is still very strong.

In 10 years your equities investment still is only making 10-15%, but even if you can currently only match that on cash flow from renting your property out, then future rent increases, appreciation, and equity would make it a very strong investment in 10 years.

Tax Code provides several strong incentives that make it exceptionally profitable for real estate investors to “both a lender and a borrower be!”

If you are in a strong/appreciating market, you might bump that up 5%.

Welcome to the forum, Wendle.As Chris already stated, there are several very strong REI clubs in the Dallas area.

Most realtors understand the power of any contingency, and I think that they place a strong value on the lack of contingencies in a contract.

You have to buy properties at a strong enough discount to be able to pay for all your expenses and still be able to profit.

Those things are all over the place and don't seem to correlate at all with actual value.Also, I would heavily weight any calculation I did with the remaining data to strongly favor the comps you get from the real estate agent.

It really sucks when you have an easy 15K or 20K sitting on the table, and the deal slips through your fingers.Actually I learned some strong lessons about this when I did my first apartment rehab.