The house will be a time consuming and costly turnover which we are trying to avoid as long as possible.

If there's any further issues with the building Dept reach out to the department of consumer affairs.

You would be able to accumulate more properties out of state as well as cash flow on SFH, as Texas is pretty pricy and the cash flow is consumed by ever growing property taxes and insurance premiums (#14 in the country on the increase). 

On the mortgage side once in a while a firm gets burned for advertising that a 7/1 ARM is "fixed" for 7 years, since a consumer could misunderstand that as meaning it's a fixed rate mortgage.I probably wouldn't be as concerned about including a picture that happens to show the ramp.

But the feedback in this thread is telling me that consumers do not like this level of transparency. 

I dove head first into this for about a year consuming EVERYTHING before I slowly started doing more action steps toward gaining properties. 

@Jay Hinrichs it will probably come to that if these incidents keep getting publicized and consumer trust drops.

Going this route allows me to work as I choose instead of needing to find the next deal.Plus I've let real estate kind of consume me over the last 4 years.

I do believe this is a good method while starting out to get familiar with the types of listings out there, however it is SO time consuming to make a list of properties, pick the ones to analyze, and then decide whether they are worth pursuing.

Does anyone in this area have or want to be do a meet up to chat and teach and hopefully consume a beverage?