Captive companies represented here are great, but as far as options and coverage, you are only getting one choice when you go captive (Just speaking from personal experience doing this every day).

It will be very beneficial if you attend one of the Houston BP meetings.   

It's something I strongly believe that everyone should do at least part time regardless of their career choice.

It is only a matter of choice.

I know if I get VM it is a turn off and I will usually hang up and move on in order to talk to a live person if I have another choice.

the way it works is they sign up with a major credit bureau of their choice and provide the credit bureau with my email so the credit bureau can forward me their credit report. that way i'm not personally liable at all for any possible allegations of misuse of their SS#. its the ONLY way i will accept a credit report for persons applying for my own rentals. how can someone not want to provide their SS# to the credit bureau?!

It touches on a lot of the sentiment shared above and brought a really interesting concept to my attention.I almost exclusively use COC (Cash on Cash) return for my metric of choice when pulling the trigger.  

Make your own choice, but know, that you will be excited with what they have to offer and they will have people in the crowd acting like audience members but work for the group.

Just because it seems like a bad choice to you doesn't mean t's not the perfect thing for the seller.Final thought... a property with a purchase price this low is probably not going to produce an NOI at 50%.

Lots more choices when you get up around Boston and North as well.