If you loan today, at highs, then the market drops, then you repay at depressed prices, you’ve protected your portfolio from a loss while selling high, buying low, and adding a rental to the portfolio 🙂.

My issue is that I am currently at 10 house loans with Fannie Mae, but selling this house will drop me down to 9, so I should have room for another golden ticket mortgage spot.Now I want to buy two houses and tactically it would be advantageous for me to use a DSCR Loan for the first house because its an existing property, and the the second house its a new construction tract home that will only take conventional financing.Under Fannie/Freddie rules would lender view the DSCR as "Loan Number 10", and I wouldn't be able to get a Fannie Mae conventional mortgage? 

I’ve had people do good on two or three jobs and then drop the ball.

If you’ve got mediocre credit I could see this hurting more, but mine is exceptional so I was surprised at the 20point drop for the purchase.

Considering duration on the market I am considering dropping my offer down to 230-240k lowest rent in the area is around 1100 highest is around 1650.

This can be done in Texas although it is extremely rare.

Has dropped some sage advice in the post above on driving for dollars and researching your areas.

Rarely do we go all this way and have them fail at the end.

I am assuming that there is a serious drop on one or both sides of the driveway.An economical solution would be Eco Blocks.

Try things like, calling, sending mail, dropping a letter off in the mailbox, getting additional contact info from the city for the property owner.if you have a log of the number of times and ways you have tried to contact the owner, you have grounds to have their insurance pay for any/all damages caused by the tree.