As far as students vs. non-students, the student body at Texas Tech is growing quickly, in addition to the large quantity of businesses and families moving into town.

One of the ideas that I'm evaluating is to acquire a small piece of property within the city limits near a train station of local towns such as Farmers Branch, Carrollton, Lewisville, Plano, Euless etc,.

You will probably also need a CO from the town - usually done by the seller, but you’ll want to ensure it’s done for closing.

I would consider any towns inside PA (i.e.

Hi David,Old Town East is a good opportunity area. 

Even if it comes back clean, the tank will very likely need to come out and then the ground is retested to confirm that nothing 'happened' during the extraction.Assuming there are no other issues (i.e. additional tanks), one option to explore is to get the tank removal as part of the initial quote, you might get a better price, and not do the actual Phase 2 testing until after the tank is out so it only gets done, hopefully, once.

We will be exploring traditional lending options over the next few days but wanted to see if there were any private or hard money lenders here that would be interested in working with us and if so, sharing their loan requirements.

Home town appraisals Cristal BellHope this helps

There is a property in foreclosure in my town.

And because of ALL the aforementioned, I’m interested in exploring commercial (retail or industrial) investments 🤣 - not really interested in residential investing.