Get to know your area's housing prices, job growth and go out and get them.Ask MANY questions here, and procure a lawyer of you do not understand a contract.Find a niche, whether it be wholesaling or buying to hold and collect rent.Good luck, Rachael.

You sit on it for a couple of years (collecting rents) or do you take your profits, and roll them into several other projects like this current one. 

But if the county doesn't collect data yeah they won't have it - but neither will the county (or MelissaData or anyone else).

In general, the Seller collected around $6,002.14 in payments (principal and interest).  

@Geode Pratt,When did Texas start allowing you to collect double deposits?

Or like what happened to some of my borrowers the PM just collect about 3 months worth of rent and fled with 250k  only to be arrested down the road and go to prison. 

The shared office staff would handle administrative tasks like collecting mail, answer phone calls and schedule appts all day long (included in my rental agreement).

This could pertain to partnership; accounting practices; rent collection systems; ANYTHING organizationally that will positively impact our business :I'm looking for as many replies as possible as : Thanks in advance !

If your not working with a realtor, I would suggest collecting data from all the major sites, Trulia, Zillow, Realtor.com etc...

This would cover screening tenants, showing the property, collecting rent, handling service calls, setting up repairs, getting bids, etc.