I would still investigate the local credit unions and banks in the area.

Your investigative questions were very insightful and useful.

Manor and Hutto also have some worth investigating as emerging submarkets of the Austin MSA.  

I've only investigated renting the whole home as a section 8 property. 

Sorry, I offer quality properties, provide excellent service, and pass up these type of potential applicants all the time in order to find the "vanilla" candidate that I can fully investigate, and know what I'm getting before they get the keys.  

After we got done investigating, we determined that the sewer line backed up, the owners wouldn't do anything about it so one of the tenants went down in the basement and smashed the cast iron sewer pipe with a hammer, letting all the sewage dump into the basement, and the sump pump pumped it out onto the ground until it finally burned out. 

In given time, this software may do automatic ARV calculation based on comps, but after investigating the house myself, I would say 0.7 ARV is actually more like 0.75-0.8.

Stevens fails to uncover any current assets, but if the deeds that transferred any property into a trust can be found, it might be assumed (and investigated) that he is still the beneficiary of those trusts.Any thoughts or experience with this???

Costs incurred to investigate a new property are not considered start-up expenses once the decision to acquire a specific property is made.

Going to take some steps in the next few weeks to do further investigation and research.