@Andrew Erickson I have been working on shipping container homes for the past couple of years, but maybe that should be an avenue you research, since these homes would have to be shipped anyway.

They can sell to us... or go down with the ship.

I WAS your type.In 2004, I bought a retail "pack & ship" store.  

Are the signs and stakes drop shipped to your placers when you buy them or are they responsible for picking them up?

Just tell everyone that San Antonio and Austin are the places to be so they can keep fighting it out for homes that don't cash-flow and see very little appreciation.Laredo has everything a great community for investment needs: jobs, development, infrastructure and an influx of capital coming in from the manufacturing and shipping industries.Don't tell a soul about your secret gold mine.

I talked just recently with a trusted broker I know out of the Sacramento area to ask him his advice about finding investment properties in California and he said "the ship has sailed for that" and that's not hard to see especially in today's market.

As that fact alone has cause more sinking ships than a bad deal or operations.. the financing is critical piece here.

Tenants are jumping ship left and right at the end of their one year lease period.

Here in the BA, there are software, hardware, and chip design companies along side companies that are involved in biotech, pharmaceutical, banking, shipping, etc.

I'm busier than a prostitute on a pirate ship with my STRs here in Coffeyville.