Austin or DFW are the common favorites, but any of the Four Metros will work fine if you don't want to sweat going out into the smaller towns. 

make sure to post your Bathroom sweat equity project before and after picture in the success forum for everyone to check it out!

I decided to pass. after crazy amounts of sweat equity/lead paint/crazy heating & cooling/trees/potential roots in sewer lines/dry rot or termites/foundation issues/etcstill left with lumpy house with crazy heating & cooling worth about what i put into it.

There are several things you need to be aware of such as UBIT, partnering with your IRA, rollovers, non recourse lending, possibly using a 401k instead of SDIRA , sweat equity, etc. hopefully they can help you do it the best way to meet your goals. 

a bottle of whiskey to my father law, a bunch of sweat and blood, and becoming the guy that paid the highschool kid who needed money ( used to be me ) good money for an easy job . moral of that story is i saved 5 to 8 thousand dollars,***** if quotes were right i have no idea****.

@Dawn Anastasi  I know what your saying but that is how he earns his sweat equity !

Unless getting lots of registered mail is something you get pleasure from (as well as watching the mail truck pull up and get the sweats when the postal worker comes to the door), I'd run screaming from kay's deal. jmp

Now is the time to do your sweat equity while you are young....what can you do to add value?

If you don't like it then you can sell it, pay off the loans and take the sweat equity as your pay.

More recently, my wife and I began investing in HUD repos in ’98, and did the sweat equity, buy-fix-hold thing while both still working our normal jobs, her as a Fiscal Analyst for the city, and me in Accounting & Finance for an S&P 500 company for which I’ve worked for the last 18 years.