Ive been struggling with the following situation and would love other's input.

One thing that I have been struggling with is finding meet ups. 

I'll have to think more on your point about the strategy, but I think the main things I'm struggling with are how much I want to count on the Houston market rents and/or property values inflating.  

Many brokers who do both struggle with one or the other.

It is common for professional tenants to make excuses as to why the utilities do not get transferred then after move in the landlord struggles to ever get it done.

If I had this cat twenty years ago, when I was a college student - assuming I paid a $350 fee and $25/mo. for 4 years - she would have added $1,550 to my overall costs at a time when I was struggling to afford Ramen and a thirty-pack of miller for the week.

Generally speaking, realtors are not trained to be investors, and most of them are struggling just to be successful realtors.

My wife and I are looking to purchase our first home in Tacoma/Puyallup, WA area.

We are preapproved for a mortgage at $250,000 but are looking to keep the purchase price at or below 235,000.

We are looking for so...

I market to a population of about 350K and struggle to get 12000 prospects. 75% of those are owner occs with little to no motivation (10yr ownership with 40% or higher equity and over 50yrs old).

I struggled for many years trying to learn new things with the underlying purpose of trying to make myself worthy of a job or to be noticed.