Quality hotels, restaurants, sports teams and nightlife, because not every trip is all business and you need to enjoy time unwinding. 

I am a firm believer that sports and life align perfectly!

In contrast, people engage in a hobby for sport or recreation, not to make a profit."

Only real problem was when they lit fireworks last 4th of July and had the street pretty well ablaze in them,,,and my porch floor mysteriously now sports burn holes in it now,,when it didnt in June.

High has more activities during the school year, sports will be earlier in the evening and the crowd is usually gone before most go to bed.

Both are sports, but are played by individuals on a team, both use sticks (Bats).

In your case, a repeated theme Kiyosaki mentions is that "business is a team sport" (and if you're the smartest guy on your team, your team is in trouble).If you haven't read it, I'd recommend Kiyosaki's book Cashflow Quadrant as it explains his idea of E-S-B-I (employee/self-employed/business owner/investor).

Having the time to do the things I really love to do in life like spending time with family and play sports.

You already have some experience and with additional effort, will quickly climb the REI ladder to its pinnacle.

You are missing the most important thing you can buy yourself,an education.You need to meet with professional wholesalers who have been doing this successfully for some time and ask them how they do it.Apprentice yourself to them for free doing their ground pounding work learning the business as a young college student intern would.Learn how to put together a large list of cash buyers and flippers who need the properties you find to sell them.Learn how to carve out a good territory to farm that has several homes sold in the last two years for top dollar prices and sold the fastest (less than 30 days).Learn how to use postal workers,utilities people,and others to spot bad houses that might be able to be bought cheap.Use high school students involved in sports teams or band to seed your farm with cards and fliers door to door at every property and give them a tax deductible donation to their groups.Promise them a bigger wad of cash if you sell a house they bird dog for you(tax deduction!).