Excellent!

I'm hoping to connect with some experienced investors in Texas and across the country, and build some long-lasting relationships!

A creative option may be buy the 4plex first and develop a relationship and purchase the other parcel later once every goes well, but then I would need to refi with traditional loan to have all 6 under 1 loan at the 5/10 year option.

With real estate it's more like an Excel formula: "If this, then that, or that, else the other"If I had to do it again, I would have paid $50K more for the same size property with a better maintenance history in a better area.

I improved my credit and built a relationship with that CU over the years.

Throw in the fact that renting to a friend/family member often times ends up not working out and/or ruining the relationship, and I'd pass. 

I do know of an excellent GC but don't have any direct experience with a good PM personally.

Excellent, Thank you Dan and Caten for creating this event.

I am looking into HomeSmart- local office to me (I am in Laguna Niguel), they provide some great support, and excellent commissions.

It is important to be able to analyze the trailing 12 month financial statement of a property and take a deeper look at the loss to lease by examining the rent roll.Ideally, you are lucky enough to have an excel version of the rent roll provided to you by the broker or the owner you are interacting with on your potential acquisition (or.. if you or someone you know is developing a character recognition software that is able to read a PDF version of a rent roll and convert it to a nice, clean excel version please let me know!).