http://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in June Single-family home sales rose 8.3 percent year-over-year with 8,414 units sold – the largest one-month sales volume of all time;Total property sales increased 8.3 percent with 9,993 units sold;Total dollar volume jumped 10.4 percent to $2.9 billion;The single-family home median price rose 2.6 percent to a record high of $239,023;The single-family home average price increased 1.5 percent to $304,155, which was also a record high;Single-family homes months of inventory grew to a 4.4-months supply, the highest level since October 2012;Townhome/condominium sales edged up 1.2 percent, with the average price up 7.6 percent to $215,713 and the median price up 3.6 percent to $171,000;Leases of single-family homes jumped 17.4 percent with average rent down 4.0 percent to $1,806;Volume of townhome/condominium leases rocketed 21.3 percent with average rent up 2.5 percent to $1,698.

Import duties on Canadian lumber have been the largest impact.

2.What do you do to ensure that the tenant is responsible for security deposit disputes since that is the largest reason for landlord lawsuits?

As my favorite derelict who used to hang around my old warehouse from the neighborhood used to say, “What had happened was was”……contractor turned out to be an incompetent, window-licking muppet, largest tenant moved out, rent declined for 2 months, my part time help all got hired away, and because I had the stupid idea that it would be easier to get all the work done myself and then go chill, I promptly burned myself out.This was accomplished by not much other than sheer willpower, and the lack of ability to delegate, implement systems, and the small fact that with 3 tenant suites added on top of my semi-ambitious-yet-I-Think-I-Can-make-it-work construction budget, my wallet became a small furry doe-eyed creature dropped into a pit of vipers.

(my run 25-40 without management) Your largest expense will be property taxes..

Not trying to recreate the wheel here. 

Jake, This is what my partner & I do.....we buy in San Bernardino & Riverside Counties for the largest profit margins.

Luckily, I fell into an awesome job working for the nations largest producer of oil and gas where I make a decent buck.

June 24, 2008 12:39 PM ETBANGALORE (Reuters) - Countrywide Financial Corp shareholders vote on Wednesday to approve the largest U.S. mortgage lender's purchase by Bank of America Corp, marking the demise of the company perhaps most closely associated with the nation's housing bubble and subsequent collapse.The vote will be held at Countrywide headquarters in Calabasas, California.

All of the sudden I was their largest customer with three units, having to clean each multiple times a week.