Also, if you give your title company or broker a call, they should provide you with a preliminary closing statement which will show your closing costs, almost to the penny to help ease your mind. 

You might want to consider something a bit more turn-key to ease your way in.

I am tired of constantly destroying my body, working in a very hazardous environment, to simply make others rich while I barely maintain my income.

I almost feel that once the sellers get over their initial "shock" of this offer, they might be more reasonable....but just not sure they can get over it....is there a way to ease them into this?

So for ease of discussion, if I pay $3,600 to buy down the rate by 1% and reduce the principle/interest monthly payment by $100 is it safe to say that I would start to see the benefit of that after 36 months of payments?  

You'll need to know how to mitigate these risks and put your partner at ease.  

Although both of these can be taken care off, but with a single story home one can have the satisfaction and ease of taking care of the residents on a single floor.  

I've run and operated 2 AirBnB's in NYC, not sure about Dallas market but I do know that it is a positive legislative environment for AirBnB. 

John,I do believe the BRRRR method is a very viable method for people to ease into out-of-state real estate investing.

But at the end of the day spiders etc are part of our environment and if they want to get in they will...not much that can be done permanently about that.