Ben, I have 3 investment houses up in Sherman, running the gamut from an ~1000 sq. ft. cheap one that I'll seller finance to a 5000 sq. ft. one that rents for $3,000 per month.  

In any case, you can take cheap, $150 a semester, Trade School courses at places like our Hillsborough Community College and learn all the trades, including Carpentry in a couple of years.

Hello,Well I'm stumped, and am a bit dumbfounded I'm not finding a clear solution to a cheap/affordable solution for a tub/shower surround in my current investment property.When demo'ing the bathroom, we pulled out an acrylic (5 or 6 piece) tub/shower surround, pulled out the old drywall, installed new Den Shield, and then planned to buy another acrylic type tub/shower liner/surround.

Looks like I won't be able to get this one for nearly cheap enough, moving on.

You really need to find a cheap god deal and just do it.  

Unless you were getting an amazing cheap price and ultra high rents I don't see the benefit.

It would probably take a few months to be rent-able, but carrying costs would be negligible.I really feel this house would be a great start for me if I can get it cheap enough.

We thought about wholesaling, but there don't seem to be enough good deals in our area to do that-to get the property cheap enough. 

For "buy and hold" investors, the markets support rental properties, with high demand, and very low vacancy rates.Texas and Oklahoma also have many other smaller markets in both states where you can do very well investing based on oil & gas prices and pick up properties very cheap that will rent for more than 2%.

After that, I was going to use a large portion of the remaining (~$130K) toward the cash purchase of a cheap place I can rent in another city, hence the original post.