I am a licensed agent in Texas and I actually provide real estate investors with knowledge and resources that will really help when you're getting started.

The advantage of flat rates instead of increases is the tenant becomes used to it, if they leave early you’ve actually collected higher rents, and you have an easy sell for rent increases when you “haven’t increased rent in 3 years.”  

I bought the wife's part I guess.

I would like to terminate and return her security depositbefore she actually moves in. 

BY illegal I mean airbnb part of your home and living in the other half (nothing actually illegal about it.

The actual estimate is about 500k illegal entries each year.

However, we keep coming back to the potential that the best first deal actually lies in a property that my mom owns in San Diego.

You'll want to make sure it is actually legal.

actually flipping only makes sense in higher priced home if you consider your time and effort, why only making $10k in 6 months if one can make $300K.

I did some research and my best guess is the automated messages are being sent to phone numbers based on data from data broker websites.