(some insurance groups may not want your business....)develop the "feel"/6th sense to "smell" the possibly good/no trouble guysalso there may be similar posts here on BP, so please use the "Search BiggerPockets" function

Property prices are a function of demand and supply, which are influenced by many variables, most notably forecasted population and job growth.

Things like major changes to floor plan or expansion, structural issues, dealing with parking, updating major systems (HVAC/elec/plumbing) vs patching them if they are still functional and safe.

Complete and functional home.

(The house is 100% functional, everything is just 20 years old) I am looking to put new kitchens, renovate bathrooms, new flooring, new doors, paint the walls.THANK YOU

I don't believe, a hunch, that in Texas a non-attorney may conduct a foreclosure, (a RE Broker/Auctioneer may be able to, not sure there) and the Trustee under the Deed of Trust performs the functions required in the process, (or a licensed servicer) so as an individual note holder, you're spinning your wheels attempting to get payoffs. 

Buying the note is an investment function.

For instance, when comparing a 3 bedroom and 1 bathroom home to a 4 bedroom and 2 bath home there may be a significant increase in value as you are going from a functionally obsolete count to desirable count.  

The 45 day challenge isn't really anything much more than the usual mentorship, except it's kind of a fun way to rally together and have a competition (and you must send in weekly report forms about your marketing and stuff, # of property info sheets sent in, # of 3 way calls etc), but since this new challenge was coming up at a similar time to my database completion I decided to step up on that because I want to compete and see how far I can go by the end of the challenge completely fresh with no previos marketing momentum.Excellent news on the database front: Turns out having super functional, sortable and easy to use forms for my lists is much easier than I thought.

Here is a copy/paste of the text explaining this functionality in their help document:"A bank reconciliation is a comparison between a company's banking records in Buildium against your "real world" bank statements.