Your first trip should be to the Planning Dept and ask if it's possible based on the zoning, and if they would view it favorably.

The stock market is, of course, up and down.

Welcome to the group! 

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

The roofer did say I will need a new roof because the roof is old so the fixes that he did may not last2) I  dont have any pictures of the damage before they fixed the roof.

You can run your own credit report on one of the big three like TransUnion and bring that to the bank.

RE is a get rich slow game and there are increasing number of people talking about how difficult it is to retire from your day job even with large numbers of rentals because cash flow is thin.On the one hand there is the Small But Mighty portfolio mentality which I believe is a book in the BP store by Chad Carson.

The DFW area is a great place to invest.

Quote from @Ryan Konen: Congrats on the judgment!

For auction properties, I'm assuming once I purchase a property I can draft and record the deed of trust following recordation of the conveyance?