But this is more evidence that continuous work by Army Corps of Engineers and Harris County Flood Plain management, and who-knows-what other agencies, is having some impact. 

As far as financing, I feel like thats easy for up to 4 units ( try and buy a 4 unit first, or a 3 unit ) because you can do FHA or a state program to help get started for like 3.5-5% down!

I can't imagine in any jurisdiction and definitely not in Texas that a landlord can bar a tenant from accessing the unit based    On a police report or any other evidence for that matter.  

Amazing!  if you think buying a flip and rehabbing are complicated then wait until you get into the accounting portion.  Determining the many ways to take advantage and properly expense everything can make your head s...

they could really ignite certain parts of the region depending on what they choose...I feel like VA near their data centers would be a easy choice - cheap and w/ incentives.

The accounting will be easy and most likely insignificant to the decision.

And many folks starting out need the addl cash for living so REI becomes the Job that pays the bills.But that type of career trajectory doesn't leave you with an easy exit strategy - especially an early exit strategy. 

I typically buy houses that are in good school districts because in general good school districts have very nice neighborhoods that make the house easy to rent out.

Times are changing and its becoming easy to isolate house hacking could help in the social and communal realm of life bringing people together.

They just have a shell metal building so it's not all that expensive for them to move and rebuild.Also, find a metro area that has very high population and job growth then find out which directions they are growing (usually easy to see by where there's a lot of construction).