As a broker you'll have regulatory requirements.  

Nothing worse than dealing with water spraying on you unexpectedly when doing a plumbing repair, never mind contorting your body to get into hard to reach areas.I don't know how plumbers deal with that stuff on a day in-day out basis.  

Without going into details under the relatively new expanded definition of securities offerings, adopted by the SEC and almost all state securities regulatory agencies, if a financial investment is involved, and people putting up the money or having money at risk don’t have control of the decision making, then its a securities offering.All Securities offering must be registered with the SEC if they’re interstate offerings, or a state securities agency if they’re intra state offerings, unless they qualify for an exemption from registration.

@Aaron Mazzrillo , I am lacking two certain body parts required to even walk into the surf south of the pier at Huntington Beach...

Just because the house has fallen into disrepair doesn't mean the taxing bodies know about it.

Can any body tell me where and how they find investment properties in Houston.

That changed over the last few years where a back up strategy was an afterthought or non excitant.Headwinds: regulatory, interest rates, house prices, "professional" competition, and market saturation.

The body of the post was not.

I also got the talk about how hard it is to buy in this market right now.The second property was unusual, to say the very lease: It is a cute house - and a body shop!

. :) But, it is more likely you may need to find an animal with a similar body type and attach a custom horn and paint it purple, pink, rainbow or whatever color/s you choose.