It wasn't until I had an old friend Justine Fey and  his wife Amber Rose reach out to me to do some repairs to a house they owned which had damage done to it from a kitchen fire started by a tenant.It was nice catching up with Justin because him and I both had a real  passion and love of Real Estate from a young age after High School...and so in catching up after so many years,  I decided gave them a really heavy discount on the repairs I had done.

That would be your first step.Unless my eyes are deceiving me (it does happen from time to time), he has 10,000 not 100,000. 

While riding around town running errands I keep my eyes peeled for unmaintained houses or vacant houses.

Hey Josh..Well, I'm catching up on emails as it were. 

Would love to catch up with BP members in person!

You'll have an asset manager/s with nearly inexhaustible resources to run the business plan and keep an eye on key performance and economic metrics that would indicate the necessity to execute a contingency in the business plan. 

I'll look up the Alamo investors group and I'm keeping my eye open on Bigger Pockets for meet ups.

@Andrew Sauthoff yeah agreed on rents not catching value increases in The Springs.

People who hurry and catch a wave late usually are the ones who wipe out.

If you tweak the financing right - 40% or 35% down, your CoC return goes up and you still have equity to survive a downturn, and you have more cash in the bank as a cushion, or buy another one.5 units starts commercial property in the eyes of a bank.