After letting our jobs consume our lives, and having very little personal time, my wife and I decided to begin building a plan which led us to real estate. 

It depends on whether you are flipping or doing buy and hold city-data.com is great for both, rentometer is good for rental comps and you can make most of the consumer websites work for sale comps just be sure that your comps are recent.

Texas Manufactured Housing DivisionAlso refer to this page as well Consumer Protection in TexasFrom the aforementioned site you will find what the legalities that you will need to stay within to operate your business model in Texas, also for further information and a more detailed clarification i would pass the mic over the @Ken Rishel as his knowledge and insight on this topic makes him an expert on this subject in my opinion. 

You might find that part to be tricky, and, for somewhat larger assets at least, time consuming to build the relationships needed to source and acquire. 

As somebody who doesn’t have family in real estate, I came up a plan of first making sure my bills were taken care of and that I wiped out any consumer debt I had.

But any agent doing even a moderate amount of business can tell you, the average consumer of buyers and sellers need tons and tons and tons of hand holding to buy or sell a house. 

What I'm saying is that, I believe in no source of income discrimination, but the regs that are involved with section 8 and the approval processes are complicated and time consuming. 

It's amazing how much water can be consumed by a running toilet that a tenant never cares to elevate to you (as they're not paying for it). 2.)

You need to know with the proposed hotel the track record of the sponsor with new build development, what existing product is on the market, how is it performing, how much new builds are slated to come online, are they national flag brands or more regional to mom and pop in nature, is the site you are developing an A++ compared to existing buildings in the area, what rent per room would be needed to justify the development and does the consumer base in the area and travelers support it for the amenities and quality of construction you will be providing.

If the damage also happened on bean/column joints, it will be more time consuming.