I think there's a ton of opportunity in town for developing some of those borderline safe/desireable areas.

I'm currently developing my vision and looking forward to eventually telling my success story.Happy New Year!

A couple things from my perspective: TX is a very low barrier to development state especially compared to CA and even the geography is wide open so the danger is that developers will just move a mile down the road and build new product to compete with yours if good employment is headed that way.

Make sure you don't by an expensive software program to do this.There are products sold based on saving mortgage payers thousands of dollars.All you have to do is what Steve said above...and it is free!

You'll develop a big network which will then make the transition very easy into your other business.

We use the same MLS software and last night I got the same thing.I have several saved searches/auto emails setup so I can know when certain things come on and off the market and last night the system deactivated every search I had because it responded with more than 400+ listings for each search all at once; which I guess is too much for the system to handle.I went back in this morning and manually checked and reset it, wasn't legit.

Your goal in marketing is to identify your prospect pool, target them with effective messaging, and remain in contact over time so your message is there at the time that THEY have the need/motivation (OR if you've been developing a great BRAND, they will hopefully remember you - and how to reach you - even if they are not seeing currently seeing your marketing message...).

I'm a 16 year old aspiring real estate developer and investor, and I'm really driven to start out as early as possible.

(technically, they get an 8% preferred return and I get a 6% developer fee if all goes to plan, then we split any upside after that).In your situation, if you and your two buddies all put in cash, and all have some sort of management/decision making roles, you could divide the ownership and upside according to your capital contributions.

In my market, agents use software programs that let them write offers online and then they can have their clients sign them electronically (using two programs, Zipforms & DocuSign).