I haven't shopped around for insurance for a few years now, but I noticed a significant increase in how much we pay for our Texas rentals.What REPUTABLE (with good/excellent history of paying out in case of fire) insurers would you recommend?

Padmapper is another good website that conglomerates listings to use in your analysis. 

Is it better to have a website domain that is the name of our business, or something more "searchable" such as something like www.ibuymycityhouses.com? 

Also, our location is walking distance to the university, and biking or walking distance to downtown, so location is excellent, except that the neighborhood is still transitional. 

A great deal will insulate you to a large degree from any short term market fluctuations ... in fact, that is the very definition that I use to analyze if I have in fact found a great deal ...

I don't know how large your condo complex is, but for condos of 50 or more units, it would be a challenge to get every owner to get to it, and properly clean the vents if it was discovered  vents were never cleaned and it could be a safety hazard.I also had special assessments for new roofs, other building wide improvements at my rental condos. 

Again, this might end up not being a bad thing for you -- it stands to reason that the higher the bar to entry, the fewer players there are.What I would do is call a lawyer in your area who loudly and proudly announced on his website that he deals with foreclosures and ask him where you should start learning about the foreclosure process in Worcester County.New Hampshire's even more interesting.

As such, the plans will be largely similar in the ability to invest in anything the IRS rules allow for with checkbook control.The only real difference on the investing side is that IRA plans are subject to UDFI taxation on debt-financed real estate investments and 401k plans are not.  

@John Ching Excellent advice!  

In the end we were able to get a large HELOC with good terms in less than three weeks.