Kwikset Halo [was on discount in my local Costco]- Does a decent job and have so far not had issues. 2.

Hope this expands your mindset a bit.

I hope this time it's for good.

You may never get your money, but hopefully she will end up in jail where she belongs and not rip off other people with her scam. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with zero or negative relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560, little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

5 years is a long time and once you are finished with your grad school and have a job, you can buy another place. 

I am using the BRRRR for this and hoping to scale my real Estate portfolio.What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

If you have a quiet title order AND properly served everybody you could find AND the guardian ad litem did their job properly, then you are probably safe.

But I’m in TX too so I wanted to chime in and hopefully learn.

Is it worth waiting until September and hope the market is still as strong or take the hit on capital gain taxes and sell now.Secondly, if we do hold this property would it make more sense to prioritize debt paydown (instead of investing in another property, put our cash towards our mortgage payment and have it paid off within 10 years.