Hello,I purchased an investment property in Largo, Florida about two years ago.My tenant called me a few days ago and noted she heard a cracking sound and the tile's in the entry way started to lift.I got a foundation contractor to come out to the house and he noted I have raveling soils as well as many other houses in my area and that my foundation is slightly compromised.

As an attempt at compromise, we moved the family's belongings into the garage and changed the locks on the doors into the house. 

This would compromise security a little but it would take a while to dismantle after drilling out the bolts.  

Refinancing seems to come with so many compromises. 

Overall "North Dallas" and Texas in general are pretty safe.Im thinking you'll have to compromise on something on your list.

With that being said, our compromise is to find a house with an ADU or mother-in-law apartment in the basement that can be rented to offset a large chunk of the mortgage.We’re currently pre-approved and have been looking at properties that are matching our criteria.

As a result, the hesitation has mainly originated from realtors who were not willing to wait for the deal to close under our exacting standards.We have actually addressed this issue over the last year, making several steps to streamline our process, but never to the point of compromising our values. 

Instead of waiting patiently for a real deal to come along or altering their current or past approach so that they can ideally better locate a real deal, they start putting on their rose tinted glasses with ARVs, neighborhoods, and repair costs and compromising their math or analysis formulas because, darn it, doing any deal has to be better than not doing a deal at all, RIGHT??

I don't have a specific market for you, but my two cents is you might have more success hitting both high cash on cash return & appreciation with a STR rather than a LTR.Best of luck in your search, but remember: real estate, as in all things, is a game of compromises... and if everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

You'll have to compromise and fit into their system.