(a) A real estate broker within the meaning of this Chapter is any person, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other business entity who for a compensation or valuable consideration or promise thereof lists or offers to list, sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, auctions or offers to auction (specifically not including a mere crier of sales), or negotiates the purchase or sale or exchange of real estate, or who leases or offers to lease, or who sells or offers to sell leases of whatever character, or rents or offers to rent any real estate or the improvement thereon, for others.

Considerable cost savings.

My husband and I did a bungalow in Arlington Heights last year.

HOWEVER, if they decide to back out after everything you do, you can't stop that... and you need to make sure your lease option buyers know full well that their option consideration is non-refundable up front.

How about taking into consideration compliance and regulatory issues.

Credit, income, reserves, experience in your line of work and in real estate are all factors that a lender will consider in making a conventional or commercial loan under.If you're strictly free lancing work on a non-contract basis, you may find a portfolio lender to provide a conventional loan if everything else is strong and you're just a few months from meeting the two year mark.The loan to value will also be a consideration, you'll have better luck asking for a 50 or 60% LTV loan than holding out at 75%.Best thing for you to do is to see your local lenders, banks and credit unions as they may pre-qualify you being aware of the issues, many mortgage brokers may find later that actually placing the loan will be a little tougher and you'll be spending money up front getting a loan package out of a broker's office to a lender.

There are many considerations like population and job growth, salary growth, costs of doing business, median home prices, housing affordability, rent vs ownership ratio, vacancy, rent growth, etc.

You could ask if their disability requires any special considerations in regards to housing.

He had quoted me with the more expensive method of repair and we took that into consideration when I made an offer. 

Still Texas property taxes may be a consideration unless offset by depreciation.