Get on meet up and get involved with real estate networking events.  

Anyway, if you lived in the converted garage, you could still sell your house whenever (as long as 2 of the last 5 years before you sell were owner-occupied) and avoid capital gains tax as Jay described, but you'd also be taking advantage of the appreciation that will most likely occur in that area.  

Frame it differently so it happens more organically as part of your lifestyle and the ordinary course of events....For example, you can stick toe in the real estate pool without getting too wet like this..Do you have home yet?

To combat this, and also upgrade systems as larger vacancies occurred the ceilings were removed, the HVAC ducting removed, the concrete was stripped via a sandblast, and then attractive and exposed HVAC ducting was installed.

Failure is not an event.

The worst part is Bexar County allows this to occur and taxes keep accruing, often times making the tax lien greater than the actual value of the property. 

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Counter bids do not occur after the seller's reserve price is met.

I normally rent it out for a week at at time, and we also do weddings and other events.  

Normally the company issues a warranty guarantee that the problem will not re-occur