My latest sewing machine escapades were making bean bags for the Cub scouts and making my sons' ripped-knee pants into shorts.    

Updating their railway system, the new home of the Red Wings, and plans for new shopping centers have been in the works for quite some time.

Those you can leave few at dry cleaners, auto repair shops, hair salons etc.With the exception of contacting FSBO And for rents, when you're doing free to low budget marketing it's mostly letting people know you're out there and what you do and essentially waiting for the phone to ring.

Other boutique shops will offer more one on one with investment oriented agents. 

If unfurnished, take the furniture to a consignment shop.

A great one-stop shop vehicle which can be used by any land lord.Welcome to Richmond!

If she's  lived in the house for that long it could end up that all or most of that 600k would be tax free.Then take her shopping for two 300k properties for cash and they live in one unit.

One bankers bag probably had about $15k in it.  

I'm excited to be in a local market when it appears that prices aren't crazily high and, judging by the new place I've rented the rental prices are quite high compared to the buying price (when comparing to London or Australia of course) so there should be some decent yields out there.I'm new to property in general also so have been blitzing through some podcasts and books and hope to have better knowledge by the time my credit rating has a chance to build over a year or so.In addition to the above education it would great to get some Houston specific information so if anyone can share some good links for reading up, any charts/graphs of historic house prices, area guide links, work out if prices/yields here are currently perceived to be high/low or anything in general you feel would be a help.Differences for me coming from the UK would be that public transport links are very important when deciding where to invest, where as here it doesn't seem to have much relevance as everyone drives but I imagine other fundamentals like Jobs, schools, shops, non-flood areas are still as important.

However I can not imagine it takes that kind of money to open for example a local sandwich or ice cream shop in a city where rent would be say $2500 - $4000 on average for prime locations, in my size requiremnts.