Assuming you are using the "cash" method as a majority of 1040 folks do for businesses, property tax is deductible in the year that it's actually paid.

And Houston was actually what I was most looking forward to, but was honestly pretty disappointed. 

It's a budget friendly option to some of the other services, and they have engineers on staff + audit defense, but the more expensive cost seg companies ($1500-2500) will actually do walkthroughs of your property via Facetime to more granularly estimate components of your structure. 

Try it next time, you might be surprised at how much $$ you actually save. 

The northwest side of SA has decently priced properties around 130-150k properties that rent for about 1k-1,600k i like the area alot and is actually growing pretty quickly so finding tenants would not be very difficult.

I guess I'm getting the wrong wholesaler emails. 

Yes, I was actually thinking of looking into the SBA loan options.

Depending on the loan amount, LTV, your FICO, length of PPP, etc I'd guess that you'd end up in the high 7s - low/mid 8s for a 3-unit property.

DSCR loans are based off of down payment, credit score and either actual or market rents so it helps to supercharge an investor's real estate goals and net worth.

I bought my primary residence last year, and actually got paid $7,000 at closing for a new construction house!