Your money can be trapped for long periods of time.

I was born in the socialist paradise of the Soviet Union.  

If your credit score or other issues will be a tough obstacle, this can be a dangerous trap.  

@Rob BeattieNO TIGER WANTS TO BE TRAPPED IN A CAGEBut on a serious note I have seen Rob's work and worked with him and he is great at what he does.  

Born and raised and the tourists are still what drives this area.

@Atwan KwanThere are pesticides you can apply that work well for centipedes, but if you only see one or two of these occasionally, you can set out some glue traps and that will more than likely do the trick.  

Plus, once they moved in, they realized fixing it up was too big of a project for them.When I asked them Pete’s question, they tearfully told me they felt they were letting their loved one down by not being able to fix the house up.They’d started looking for a new place and found they’d be able to purchase a house they’d previously lived in – it was where they’d brought their first-born child home to.

The more and more I'm learning about real estate, I am finding that a really good way for me and my wife to jump into REI is to use an FHA loan and buy a multi-family and live in one of the units for a year or more.The actual niche and strategy I am interested in investing are SF and MF buy and hold.The questions I have - being born and raised in and around Dallas - is are their decent/good markets for multi-family properties the Richardson, Plano, Garland, and surrounding cities?

Yes they are cheap to buy, and yes you have tenants that are essentially trapped in that price range, but that doesn't mean that your property will be worth anything to anyone else OR that your tenants won't bounce around to other props/ cause you endless headaches. 

I don't want to be the guy that craps in the punch bowl, but I assume you realize that you could have been born in Detroit, thought the same thing as you did in San Diego and lost your ***?