From an outside perspective, his need to protect is being threatened.

I'll give you my perspective, take what you like from it..as it is going to be extremely condensed but you'll see the tips of the icebergs at least. 

Very helpful perspective!

But I'm also coming from the perspective of a perpetually hot market where we need to be super aggressive to acquire a property.

@Allan Glass, as someone who recently came out of the USC entrepreneurship scene, and now working in real estate, I have an interesting perspective: I have visited, toured, and worked in several USC incubator spaces as well as some SF and LA based shared workspaces like CrossCampus and StartEngine.

I just wanted to give an "locals" perspective of the market since you mentioned you from CA.I can tell you this, property in this price range in Tomball sells for right around market value within a week or so. 

This will become a significant cost as you growFinally, to help put this into perspective, assuming you will be looking for deals and not just buying at market price, it will be difficult to find so many properties.  

At least from an insurance perspective.

I suppose you could, and maybe a CPA will tell me I'm an idiot, but from a tax/business perspective it doesn't make any sense.

Thoughts and perspectives are appreciated, Thanks!