The pictures show fairly well, but of course they are going to take favorable pictures.

The long term trends continue to be favorable for Houston.  

Tide is definitely turning in your favor. 

Store cards typically are easier for people who are building credit to get, but regular or general-purpose cards issued by national banks are weighed more favorably by credit-scoring formulas.However, if you're building or rebuilding credit with the goal of getting a mortgage, store cards may prove more helpful.Mortgage buyer Fannie Mae now requires mortgage lenders to look more favorably on people who regularly pay off their credit card balances when that information, known as trended or time series data, is available.

It really favors the seller/owner heavily. 

Also depends if the property management/owners are skewing the numbers in their favor.

One accountant preferred to use QB online, while another preferred the Windows desktop version, and yet another completely dismissed the use of adapting QB for property management in favor of using another SaaS offering like folio and even going so far as to insist that you need one bank account per property in order to best track the individual transactions.I am also interested in a free online educational reference that can be used to instruct me on the details of recording a HUD-1 statement for purchasing property, recording a closing statement for the sale of property, and the technique used to record both types of transactions within a 1031 exchange.Thanks,Erick

There is no place like BP - do yourself a favor and start out by listening to the podcasts.

Kind of.....It's actually that you can only have one amount of "Entitlement" that the VA will "Guarantee" for you, at a time.The VA "guarantees" your loan to your lender so that the lender is more confident in offering you a loan and tend to provide more favorable loan terms. 

I've not seen such favorable numbers during my search.