Expanding your buyers list is key, especially in a hot market like Houston.

Real estate is, after all, very capital intensive.

You might want to think about pulling up the carpet and taking a look. (2) Maybe the water delivery piping under the floor, hot or cold, has developed a pinhole leak and is spraying onto the subfloor from below. 

The Auction Preparation Workshop (somewhere around $250 for three days at a hotel in FL and offered after you purchase the training) was pitched as an intense learning experience. 

They may even engage in intense, detailed negotiations.

Plus a small cutting board and "hot plate" to avoid tenants damaging kitchen counters by chopping items or setting hot pots directly on them.Gail

They can use water from the hot tub or fill up a bathtub to have water for flushing toilets.  

She then got a message from the tenant yesterday that said: "I know the plumber came but we did not have hot water yesterday and again this morning.

A hot water heater might have a 6 or 12 year warranty, but you can expect it to last double the warranty.

They know the tenant base, median rents of different areas, how much to increase rent each year, ranges of repair costs (ex: tenant calls and says AC isn't working, no hot water, faucet is leaking, the HVAC system goes out).