People that are successful in SFH's are kind of lucky or very smart. 

I have the following questions if anyone would be kind enough to answer.Questions:1.

Often people say they are motivated and what they really mean is "I am really motivated to sell this for $20K more than it is worth"  That is not the kind of motivation we look for. 

Flat roofs do drain, but not nearly as efficiently as a roof with any kind of pitch.

there are all kinds of shops that will take you on.. really depends on what you want to do with the license.for me first 20 years or so I used the license to make money. last 20 I used it to represent myself in my own deals.

That's still a good chunk, but kind of a hairy ride for a bit waiting for appreciation.Now if you bought those  3 years ago when I started buying out of state for cash flow you could have paid $750 to 800K and made 125K to $175K appreciation, but you still would have run a small negative cash flow over 3 years probably say  about 20 to 25k for the 3 years.So all in all in the hottest appreciation market in the last 3 years you'd make a net of $150K or so with that California real estate putting down about $250K down payment.In my case the last 3 years with my out of state property I got from $250K  a total of  $135K of forced appreciation and  rental income of 105k. 

What kind of returns are you getting in CT, any abnormal expenses? 

I don't know that area too well (looking at a map, it's kind of NW of Missouri City?)

It's been 2 weeks and the kind of applications we are getting are far from ideal...bad credit scores, delinquencies, hard to figure out how much do they make (meaning self employed in some cases) are some of the issues that made me reject 4 applications so far.My property manager (who helped me buy the house) has posted the ad on all relevant websites, we have priced it at the lower end of the range at which similar homes are listed in the area, but still not happy with the applications.I would be interested to hear what folks, knowledgeable about the Austin market, think...is there more that we can do?

It's kind of a break I take and find it relaxing.