Would be cool to branch out of all things real estate to help people have bigger pockets lol@Scott Trench@Mindy Jensen@Joshua Dorkin

You have many options.I don't know what rental prices are in Houston, but I have very many friends and previous buyers who have paid $1,200 a month for 800sqft-900sqft units (with water being the only utility paid for).I recommend West Gate area.

Very cool, Wichita, KS is a great place to invest.

And its not really the snow that causes problems its the water from the snow melting and ice from that snow melt then re-freezing that is the biggest issue. 

Also note, the metering of water/sewer/etc. costs $15,000 per unit.Thanks in advance for your thoughts.Mike

Verify water drains quickly.

First off thanks everyone for all the cool intros, I read plenty of them and if I missed you it was because there is a ton, which is cool because there are more and more like minded people everyday that want to get down to business, but scary to me as well.

Everything was going well until first tropical storm flooded with 18 inches of water.

gas, sewer, water, electric, garage?    

You might guess that our tenants had a massive failure of their water heater, which (with no experience and no contacts) I had to coordinate the $1800 replacement from a mountain cabin near Estes Park.