Her income now is SS of around $2400 and a basic 40hr office job that pays all of $17/hr, but she is retiring with this move.

Some will have snags with permitting, some will have contractors you need to fire and then pay more for a new crew to come in and fix the job.  

Several factors indicate the company is not that concerned about efficiency or ease of customer process: the website, a process that seemed to focus on one issue at a time instead of all issues at once, and consistently poor communications and lack of common sense from the loan analyst we were assigned.It started off very well with the initial point of contact, Austin Lornson, who did a fine job of explaining the general refinancing process, responding quickly and thoroughly to our questions.

If you know of any legal entity in TX that can help in a case where GP is not doing their job (maybe a branch of SEC), please let me know.TIA

With a budget of $300K-$400K, you could potentially find single-family homes or small multi-units in those areas.I'd recommend researching rental demand near universities like Duke or NC State or even checking out neighborhoods with strong job growth near tech hubs.

Kiavi does a good job with a lot of things, but they tend to be a bit more "vanilla" and stick to their guidelines/checklists.

This diversity provides a certain level of stability to the job market.Population Trends: The population has seen modest growth in the last decade.

Some of them have converted to flips, but I do not do flips because it is a job (stop flipping, stop earning).  

I also treated studying like a full-time job.

So at this point given the large amount of income that the wealth management company kicks off, this very nice profit from the real estate portfolio is looking less and less attractive every year especially considering the time and mental real estate it takes up for her and the tax consequences.