I was just wanting to know, during adverse weather conditions what do you do if your tenant calls and reports a problem of leaking water and the roads are a solid sheet of ice and none of your maintenance personnel cant make it to the property?

If you go down this road I would consult with some experienced contractors and bring them during inspection time.

I'm also recently embracing and pushing on owner-carry second mortgages for 10-20% of the value of the property, to help stretch my funds further, although typically these will have a balloon payment due in a few years, which may put me in a tight spot down the road.

It's across the street from a busy gas station, on a busy road, in town, and surrounded by other small businesses then tons of residential property for miles. 

It's been really good for us last few years, so I decided it was time I dropped in on the forums to find some key answers that I know my business will be facing down the road.

If the planets align as I hope I will likely be based around the Plano area (main job, easy routes to airport), but setting up some alerts with some key words is a good call @Sol N.To be honest, until recently I hadn't considered real estate as a real investment, more of a place to live, but after looking at some of the material here I'm beginning to incline towards the multi-family (2plex, 3plex, 4plex) unit-type approach to maximise initial investment, and take advantage of any tax breaks whether now or down the road.

For example, it is now time to calculate whether deducting 50% of your expected rental income is too conservative for your expenses allowance, or not conservative enough.Looking at the conditions relating to this particular property is where the rubber meets the road, as opposed to a general "50% Rule of thumb".

Who will run your business if something happens down the road?

If some crazy passes me doing 100 mph, I don't confront the idiot when we all get to the cafe or bar up the road.

Where is the king`s road to this conflict how can we connect real estate agents with sellers, buyers in a much more professional way instead of games selling online leads to agents.