If the opening bid is not in your list view you can press the customize button and easily add the opening bid column.The advanced alerts, which automatically sends you a text message or email when an opening bid is posted to the site, does require an additional fee.

The owner states serveral times that every customer gets to interact with each other in conference calls so I agree with him.

@Kenneth LaVoie attended a RE conference in CA last year and the big idea there was the biggest returns were coming from upgrading existing properties.

Otherwise, many agents will ask permission of a title company to use a conference room or spare office.

B/c it gives me access to certain useful resources, and for some reason ( I truly don't understand why) it confers a degree of cred I'd otherwise lack.

Usually years of accumulated silt have filled the clay weeping tiles, the earth on the outside of the home is pressed tightly to the concrete foundation leaving water no where to go.

At the last real estate conference I attended, a lot of agents agreed that condo hotels are the new trend in larger cities for out-of-state and international investors. 

As others have noted, you'll be hard pressed to find a multi family and likely will need to default to a SFH in Houston.  

@Lucia Rushton - Just noticed that you also will be attending the BP Conference next week! 

At least that's what the press releases say.