Also, just checked out your profile; I love seeing other former East Coast people that have moved to (and made it in) LA. 

Thanks for the welcome.I would ideally like to find a property in Livingston or Whippany or Roseland or East Hanover.

But then, my love for computers lead me into IT field.I am now pretty comfortable with my 9-5 job and would like to pursue my interest in Real Estate as well.My short term goal is to buy a Multi family unit this year and to be my own boss in 5 years I am currently looking for Multi-Family preferrably a fourplex for house hacking in South east area of Houston.Like Clear Lake , Webster, Friendswood, Pearland etcThanks for your time and I am really excited to be here !!!

We dug around the exterior perimeter and replaced the footing drain pipe that had gotten full of dirt, sealed the exterior foundation walls, added a drain across the middle of basement to the footing drain (used a cement saw instead of sledge hammer), tied the drains to a sump pump.  

We are largely interested in multifamily rentals on the east coast, where we hope to return.

Things seem to slow down a bit in the middle.

I'm preparing to selling my primary, and looking for a new primary in the east valley.

And they can alert the landlord regarding when service is shut off, whether due to non-payment or move out; this could leave a unit unheated in the middle of winter for example, and you would want to know about that.  

Presumably the option fee the seller collected up front and the rent they've been receiving for two years makes up for getting it back.If you're going to be in the middle of this sort of a deal, getting sued by the buyer or seller or both is a real possibility.

The front flower beds have some standard bushes in them, or at least they would be standard if they did not have those wire Christmas reindeer planted in the middle of them (bush and ornament are now one).