It really comes down to two things: quality of your tenant and your system.I would account PM fees in the analysis so if self management doesn't work out you could turn to plan B and still cash flow. 

Suddenly as I realize the rocks have been here thousands of years, the stream many centuries, and I am just passing through like every man before me, it seems easier to put things into perspective and figure out what is important to me. 

This site rocks by the way!

I just can't bring myself to do it.....And Chris, I sence that you have the eye of the tiger toward a real estate investment practice, eager and ready to pounce on the possibilities out there, that can be a good thing, but you have some research to do my man....I'm going to back out for awhile and stop foaming, get the sheet rock out of my finger nails from clawing my ceiling after reading this thread.

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I do not know about Texas but in Georgia you do need a team of at least 3 people to move them out.Once you get the writ the writ here costs 20 dollars and then you have to wait for the writs to go to the Marshall's office from the eviction office.Depending on the county some are really backed up in serving the writs.Some have over 800 in one month.This is why Marshall's get very mad if you do not have the people when they get out there.If you are a one man band it could take hours instead of 15 to 20 minutes with a professional crew or one of your own.If you can get a good enough deal it's better to use the crew the Marshall's uses the most.The company gets a list from landlords filing the writs and they usually call you.Most tenants are long gone before the Marshall comes out but after the writ is filed.Only maybe 5% stay there till the end.I have had it happen once before and the rest were gone way before then.When evicting see if you can do a property inspection of the unit.We made a mistake before of just looking at the lower level on inspection.Then when we did the eviction and had 4 people helping us they didn't have much on the main level but upstairs was packed to the brim (wall to wall).

BTW this forum rocks....

This is just my 2 cents. others may think it rocks!

In my case my financing was rock-solid, but all the pre-quals generated hard pulls to my credit, and my scores were dropping.