Jim,  Thanks for your comments/questions.My plan is basically very simple, to just double the number of doors each year.  

Texas has a very simple foreclosure process and as a result allows investors to invest in foreclosures with ease.

When using it as a downpayment, the banks never even blinked as long as we had a paper trail as to where the money came from and our DTI still looked good.

I suggest to wholesale the properties until you have enough money to do a simple flips.

If You don't have the cash, you can't make a cash offer.....it's pretty simple.

Simple solution there is when you contact your buyers list you tell them that the expectation is that they also pay the sellers prorated portion of the taxes owed and say how much that is.  

I'm not saying that's the case here, but often agents don't understand the details of a buy and hold investment beyond projections on a piece of paper.

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Cash flow numbers may look better on paper out of state, but no equity bump and much harder to realize those cash flow projections unless you hit the lottery with a rock star PM (most are far from it).

Plain and simple .