This method cost you nothing.This is a good starting point to build investment capital while you learn.If you plan to buy and hold or rehab and flip, then you will need either investment partners on conventional funding sources. 

Mortgage Interest Deduction: You can deduct the interest paid on a mortgage used to buy, build, or improve your home.4.

Here's some context: The access to our properties used to be the main road until the 1970s when the city rerouted it to build a highway around our homes, giving this access to the landowner at that time.

It seems one of the requirements that a building be stabilized is that it has 6 or more units. 

So are lease options ok if it’s a commercial building in Texas?

i.e if someone gets bit from a dog living in my building, am I more liable if that dog is a 50lb pitbull than if it is a 15lb yorkie?

My hope is that building departments will act quicker in issuing permits, as this change will increase their workload. 

It feels like you are trying to skip steps rather than doing the hard work of delaying gratification, thinking long term, and slowly building wealth.

As you start to build a relationship, I've had success paying contractors for quotes until you do a job with them.

@Thea Hernandez Welcome and so happy to see you building things up.