I have someone asking $35K for 3 years and offered 15% annual return...but I looked up TX and the most you can charge is 10% without violating usury law...help???

I'm happy to connect you with someone who has listed on Sunday before for you to speak to her directly about her experience, if you'd like. 

Arbitrage would be renting out a place while simultaneously subletting it to someone else for more, assuming there was zero risk involved. 

Someone needs to do a spread on your property. 

I never felt that the claim against either of us was a valid one, but my opinion didn't make any difference: Someone was suing us for damage and seeking a significant amount of money, and both we and our homeowner client had to cooperate fully with the insurance company.The insurance company zeroed in on the condition of the stairs and railings.

But, that is not always the right answer and you should speak with someone familiar with your personal situation to get advice specific to you.

As well as high quality social groups for real estate investing on forums/internet sources.

Hey @Craig Simak, are you looking for an attorney to conduct real estate closings, someone to help with entity structuring, someone skilled in landlord/tenant law, or something else entirely?

Obviously, since this is BP, someone who also knows good strategies for minimizing tax liabilities with relation to real estate investing as well.  

South Shore , as someone mentioned, has a lot of very large apartments in the 2-4 unit buildings in the area.