Those prices are high.

Do not paint brick -- low maintenance becomes expensive high-maintenance, no thank you. 

Much like fix and flip loans spiked up to 11-14% for a while, and are now back in the high 9's to 11's, I think it's encouraging to see the terms floating back to closer to where they were before. 

Regarding limitation of taxes upon selling, you'll need to make your expenses high (at least on paper), but if your plan is to purely sell it and cash out, then you're going to end up paying capital gains taxes.

As an agent if I get a referral I love clients who are A) Ready & able to buy B) They communicate 3) Not difficult/high maintenance.

I like Northside and Northeast school districts but many of these areas are priced too high to cash flow.

High volume discounts are available to everyone, irrelevant of deal type, with me.  

I highly suggest looking into duplexes in areas like Sunnyside, Acres Homes, Independence Heights, and East River.

Most of the houses we are finding on the MLS are priced too high for the numbers to work on a fix/flip. 

Their system is extremely discriminatory to the cheaper programs, systematically excluding those members from the real quality education, while the premium program is essentially ineffective.The program is extremely mediocre, to say the least.