Austin home builders also saw a surge in pending sales and fewer Days on Market for new homes sold in August.https://patch.com/texas/downto...

If I go conventional, the down payment will consume all my capital with no room for error. 

Firstly hello everyone, my first post here but I've been consuming a lot from this community over the last 3 months.I'm currently looking at closing on a new property which will become my primary residence.

As for amenities, it really depends on the place as most of my places were bought in competitive markets, so fewer choices. 

If rents are going up, they face the decision of more vouchers at lower rents and hope they're close enough to qualify for market-rate OR fewer vouchers at higher-price.They may have made one of these decisions and run out of money. 

Now, we have fewer foreclosures and pre-foreclosures and a lot of properties have already been flipped or BRRRR'd so it's slim pickings in lots of markets.

It is very time consuming, especially since I’m trying to do this while working a full time job.

Those laws are put in place to protect the public.My advice is to get licensed and subject yourself to the laws that are in place to protect consumers. 

I have almost all of my consumer debt paid.  

So, putting the property in an LLC typically means that you’ve eliminated the residential/consumer type mortgage - the one most people want because of the long term low fixed rates.Lots of people say to just close in your name and then afterwards quit claim to your LLC.