The house needs work (obvious from the street), but not to the point of tear down from what I can see.

IOW, if you're ordering lists is there much if any point in driving the streets.

I've been working with Jenna at the South Hover Street location.  

One of the properties that I am holding happens to be across the street from the house I live in.

I sent a letter to the owner of two homes in Waxahachie Tx, his response was that he is not interested in selling at this time but that he would sell a 3rd property he owns down the street.

That could be a busy street, burned out or abandoned houses in the neighborhood, railroad tracks, industrial areas, steep hill/driveway, near the interstate, next to a graveyard, funky layout, high ceilings, etc...

One is located in the Pinecrest Heights community of Annandale, close to 395 and Duke Street, and the other is located in the Carlyn Springs community in Falls Church (close to Bailey's Crossroads).

For effortless, built in equity and cash flow you'll need a time machine to the days of blood in the streets and fear that Bay Area real estate was dead "for real this time".  

For which I still BLAME Wall Street and many HUCKSTER Financial companies .

I was worried about our Sugar Land house since SL got drenched the hardest, but thankfully all was ok other than some street flooding.