Lead was forever a gasoline additive.

Do you live in NC or are you expecting your current tenants to do all the heavy lifting when showing the house, etc?

I live only a few miles from your prospecting area.  

When I ask for reasons I get cost of living, quality of live, moderate climate, fresh water access, no natural disasters and moving back to where they were from.From what I can see the trend to the Midwest is steadily increasing, but by no means as big as moving south.

HI Dean,You can always start off by house hacking meaning you live in one UNIT or ROOM and renting out the other vacant units/rooms to offset your monthly mortgage payment.There are several ways to run and make sure you are maximizing your rental income while keeping your living expense as low as possible.

(They live in my basement apartment) they have broken many things in my contract and have now said they plan on leaving in a month.

Purchase price: $235,900 Cash invested: $70,000 Sale price: $399,000 Complete Renovation: deleting walls to open up kitchen into living room, new kitchen, cabinets, appliances, custom doors, floors, trim, paint, new laundry room, new powder room, new master bathroom, custom woodworking, exterior farmhouse paint, all new interior paint, etc.

I know the city inside out and lived there for 20 years, visiting regularly.

Living and working in Austin, I know this market and its neighborhoods in my bones, all things I've absorbed over 20 years of living here.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's no mother, or she's already dead, or living it up in Palm Springs.