As an aspiring investor myself, I’d like to pick the brain at how my clients approach their investments to familiarize myself when I go down that road.For the short time I had my license active, I was working with homebuyers and it wasn’t a pleasant experience.

Overall I was so pleasantly surprised at how great the properties were, how much the rent is increasing, and the really nice neighborhoods that they were in.

Great place to live for my family, naturally a good rental in time.

What would you change if you could go back in time to before you closed?

However with the new Real ID requirements many states have been implementing, most driver licenses now have verified home addresses, so I'm not sure I'm even comfortable showing that to a tenant.It might not help in time for this tenant, but you can get a U.S. passport card (not the full passport, the card is an add-on you pay a little extra for) which is a U.S. government-issued photo ID that does not have your home address on it, and show that to a tenant making this request but not give them a copy.Another option is that, assuming you have the tax bills sent to a PO box, you could show the tenant one of the utility bills for the property which has the same address on it as the tax assessor has for the owner of the property.

I understand that this is my biggest flaw at this point in time.

Unfortunately you have lost a lot of equity since 2010 (we all understand why you haven’t bought, and you cannot go back in time… ) : so let’s not do that again. :) Buy something you can afford, add value in case of a market correction, save 6 to 12 months of emergency funds and you will be ok! 

Short sales vary so much by lender/investor/homeowner situation and various complications that you kind of just have to face all the problems and in time conquer them all. 

Judge was VERY clear: I gave proper legal notice to pay or they needed to be out, she did not pay in time so she was out, regardless of her excuses or my reasoning, we kept it fully on the facts of the eviction (she got notice to pay on time and she did not pay...period NOTHING else mattered)So if you gave him proper notice of lease termination then he HAS TO BE OUT. 

I'm sure this happens all the time and perhaps HCAD does not go back in time to recover the difference for the exception.