Its a shame that we tend to play by the rules and professional tenants can take advantage.  

Minimal investment and return are really their only goals in my experience (not that these shouldn't be on their list, but they tend to be the only goals). 2) they don't live in the city so they don't know the city as well and just tend to buy where prices are low. 3) the quality of work done on their properties tends to be a little below the average investor quality, so honestly I feel as a group they pull value and rents down where they invest, rather than the opposite.There are plenty of us out there who DO care about community focus and try to affect positive change.  

These kinds of tennants tend to be higher quality and are likely to stay longer. 

I tend to be more risky but I also want to be smart about it.  

They tend to be shy. lol

It's been a (whole)sellers' market in Houston for over 2 years, so buyers tend to stretch in order to make deals happen. 

There is plenty of highly promising/almost magical real estate investing ideas out there for beginner like me, but I tend to be very weary of things that appear too good to be true (science background here, I've been trained to be skeptical).

Comps tend to go between 280-320 in the area.  

I tend to prioritize responses based on how/what they put in the email, and have had excellent, low hassle tenants as a result. 

If she agrees to a date, then type up a kind letter summarizing the conversation and send it to her - just as a memory aid "since we all tend to forget conversations."