We are seeing some slowing home price appreciation and housing inventory gains, which is normalizing us to a more stable market and aligning us with long-term historical market trends.”Here are the basic stats on single-family home sales for November 2017 for the City of Austin and the greater Austin area:Signs point to a strong 2018:“The 2018 Austin-area housing market will be a lot like this year’s housing market – slower, but still very strong housing market activity,” said Mark Sprague, State Director of Information Capital for Independence Title.

I'm sure they are out there but of course like anything the vision and abilities have to align very very nicely....

Find an agent that understands your investment philosophy and can align that with your goals.

My question is, how can you align yourself with a partnership with a private money investor on deals where you are essentially 'gap funding', but want to place the investor in 1st position, without harm?

Good luck getting your interests aligned for a change.

Make sure they align with your goals and your business practices and can be a partner to help you grow to achieve your goals not just collect the rentHow many people work for your company ?

It really all depends on what strategy aligns with your overall goal.

@Charles Salumn if your ultimate goal is to live in it for a time and then move out, you will want to run your numbers as if it is a regular non-owner occupied rental property... if it doesn't work after you move out then it doesn't align with your goals.

Again I was just so torn by him being such a strong applicant and also having been in the military I like to respect his service and offer him a well maintained house of everything had aligned.

This is likely because once you have more equity than 40-50% in a home, your return on that equity doesn't align well with the investor drive in your bones.