Ft encroachment into the setback in the shape of a very thin triangle:  a Point in the front, all the way up the building width, back something like 35 feet to about a 1 foot width and back again...  

All very possible to do with a little work, it's just a little bit of a learning curve.The medium-term corporate rental market is a little harder to break into, and a property manager who specializes in this might be advantageous.

If I'm going to go with any shade of light grout to medium gray in both rentals and properties renovated for sale , I prefer Custom's premixed "premium grout" Fusion Pro, available at Home Depot, for exactly the same reasons Mike laid out.

I prefer metro areas with at least 3-5 medium to large companies.

Even though fix-and-flippers are working on residential properties, they will borrow on a commercial basis (unlike homeowner mortgages which have significant mortgage borrower protections).Medium-term opportunity: In addition to hard-money lending, I am also looking at opportunities to fix-and-flip and fix-and-rent properties myself.Proposed Entity structure: Use the WarBucks - Red Ink strategy (see http://www.homesteadschools.com/legal/Lawsuit%20&%20Asset%20Protection%20K.%201.pdf ).1.Set up a Wyoming based Multi-member LLC (say, Wyoming WarBucks LLC)1.a.My wife and I will own 98% of Warbucks LLC.

Yes, when you have a reputation of giving good advice or you have some medium of transmitting what is assumed by the public to be reputable and you allow the contrary to occur, you just got a black eye.

There are free and less expensive methods and mediums to use while starting however I think this quote holds true.Considering a Venn Diagram with 3 circles.

Think of each side of the house and its respective rooms are all the same width and flow from one room to the next with no hallways. 

Of course, this forum is just one medium I am utilizing to educate myself, and I'm sure Texas is a big enough state with room for another investor.

Ideal properties to for land flipping are typically located within a few hours from a medium or large city.