If the answers to these question are coming out in a way that makes me think he's motivated, then I'm going to shift my direction to buying myself.  

I live in DFW, but have shifted most of my new investing to Austin.

We do that by managing and shifting risk. 

I am attempting to streamline my offer process.

I believe that being able to streamline this process from the beginning will increase profitability and allow me to grow faster.  

They should be able to get you the best price and streamline the process for you.To test for mortgage rates, I sometimes use bankratemonitor.com.

The second category is accounting, bookkeeping, expense tracking.For tools to help streamline the operational parts of being a landlord / real estate investor, a platform like Avail.co would be perfect.

And the houses selling over 400k in his area are 2000sq ft plus to his 1400sq ft. 2 car garages to his "needs to be teared down make shift car port."

Originally I was interested in doing wholesaling, and now my interest has shifted more into lease options, both doing sandwich deals and assigning your deal to the end buyer or another investor, also known as wholesaling lease options.

Shifting slabs can lead to burst pipes because they are most often embedded in the slab.