https://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in April: Single-family home sales rose 7.8 percent year-over-year, with 7,586 units sold, marking the third consecutive month of positive sales and the biggest volume increase of 2019;On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are 2.2 percent ahead of 2018’s record pace;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes edged up from 56 to 57 days;Total property sales increased 7.8 percent, with 9,063 units sold;Total dollar volume jumped 9.6 percent to about $2.7 billion;The single-family home median price rose 2.1 percent to $245,000, achieving an April high;The single-family home average price was up 1.9 percent to an April high of $310,676 – the second highest average of all time;Single-family homes months of inventory reached a 4.0-months supply, up from 3.5 months last April and the most plentiful level since September 2018.

Hi, I am in the middle of negotiations with a pretty motivated seller who is looking to sell me her duplex, but can’t seem to figure out the best win-win scenario for this one. 

Are you in the middle of rents?

@Rachel Deering -  what @Jonathan Pflueger said.If you want to invest AND help your daughter, there's a middle ground.

After doing my due diligence and spending more than enough time researching the property, I received a phone call and the owner of the land told me that the house burned down in the middle of the neighborhood.

We all make mistakes in the beginning... and the middle... and the end. :)  Keep looking and researching, and you'll find a great deal that will work out for you that you can use as a stepping stone to bigger and better deals, rinse and repeat.

My company is finding some solid deals all over middle TN but most of them do require minimal cosmetic work at the least, but that's what EVERYONE is looking for so it's obviously more difficult to find and when you do you have to be very quick.

@Jaysen Medhurst Right, I'm thinking about what Scott Trench says in his book and podcasts with BP that if you want to be successful in any market then you have to buy at the top of the market and at the bottom and in the middle so that they all make up for each other.

But I do love driving my Jaguar E-Pace...fun to drive but I wouldn't buy it.

Still in the middle of working on it....