I figure that if the owner has a current mortgage that perhaps I could offer to get a mortgage for payoff of their mortgage and then owner finance the remainder? 

@Jason Andersen  it doesn’t look so bad that you can’t patch it as the others have said look for vinyl patch it works better In our climate for patching and you can do the work yourself the cost should be approximately $20 

About 200 units here.I am trying to figure out how to quantify if the annual maintenance would be more efficient then bringing natural gas on-site.Cheers!

Spending your Dallas dollars may produce better opportunities in northern Mississippi, where presumably you already have contacts, while you work to figure out the Dallas market and build connections in Dallas.

Many times the offer memorandum will have the population numbers on it (take them with a grain of salt), then use google earth to approximate the size of the competition.

In figuring out my taxes, I seems I only owe a few hundred dollars. 

If I try to reply to someone, such as @Scott Trench or @Mindy Jensen in a message, while on my phone or one of two tablets, I can't.What happens is as soon as I type a word, then hit the space bar, the text I just typed disappears.At first, I figured it was my tablet. 

They've figured it out over many years, what lists work well, which lists don't work, which neighborhoods work well and which don't, etc. 

You'd have to figure out what that property would go for without a house and see if you could get the land and and remove to house for less.     

I think you will need to speak with an attorney to see how much they will charge to take care of this and then figure out how much it will actually reduce your taxes by.