@Dan KielySugar Land and Katy are family-friendly suburbs with good schools, a strong job market, and a safe environment, but have higher property taxes and commute times.

Someone I know is under contract on a property near the Beltline in West End.  

We had tenants renting for 4yrs, when we got to the property after they moved out we noticed a large oil-stain in the driveway as well as various other smaller oil stains in the driveway.

I’m about to close on a residential property and want to ensure everything goes smoothly.

With high mortgage rates and rising costs for insurance and property taxes, affordability has become a critical issue.

We lived in that house for almost 30 years prior to returning it to a rental property and we've NEVER had cockroaches of any kind.I'm wondering if they might have come in on some of her moving boxes.Regardless, we have a pest control contract in place, and I've already contacted my technician.Should we be worried about this tenant, or am I just over-reacting? 

Reasons to sell the seller on the Owner financing might be, because you are going to do a substantial rehab to the property, or that the property doesn't have any buyers, and this is a way to sell the property.Seller Financing works a lot better when there is not a realtor to pay, where a realtor's commission could be 6%, which on a $300,000 Purchase would be $18,000.An additional option you might consider if you are looking at purchasing this property to do a flip, or fix and rent, is you could propose seeing if the seller would partner with you, and you would secure a Private Loan for 50% of the sales price, plus the rehab, and if there is enough upside equity, you would probably be able to do a cash out refinance and pay off the seller that way.

In return I can offer access to MLS information(Realtor), Sweat equity(maybe you need help in one of your flips), Bird dogging, or even listing any properties for you in return for your guidance. looking forward to connect with the community.

I was going to call some numbers on signs at properties being developed to see if they were interested.

How do you analyze a property for a medium term rental?