In the next six months I will be moving out of the country.I am on the fence with my current rental property.

I use a Keurig for my STR in SC. 

Never built in Houston before so take my feedback with a grain of salt but I'd put money on it being impossible to build a duplex from scratch for $125 a foot (including everything from drawings, engineering, permit fees, general conditions, labor, material, landscaping).Out here in AZ the builder cost is going to be $200 a foot at best, but add 20% on top of that for the client cost.

I pencil in 4.5% when I underwrite my deals. 

After a quick drive by of the property and some online research, I submitted my offer and it was executed by lunchtime.

My cousin is considering the offer that a company has made to him through Zoodealio.

There is a gutted duplex that is just sitting in my neighborhood on Nunan St downtown right now.

The owners refused my advice to reduce price and they both sat vacant for months.

Based on what my real estate agent thinks that this quote will be, roughly, and the after repair value, it looks like I could buy this property in cash, spend a month or two fixing the damage, and then put a mortgage for roughly 1.6x what I paid for it and thus have a cash flowing property at a few hundred dollars per month and a little more money in my bank account ready for a down payment on the next deal.

Quote from @Tomasz Kaminski: I'm looking locally at my county auctions and there's properties for sale due to foreclosure.