Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

It's like the old sports car is better than pick-up truck - depends on what you want to do.

Phoenix is a great market for STR's with the great weather and the amount of concerts, sporting events, etc that take place here.

Abandon the Peurto Rico dream for now and look at more realistic/beginner friendly areas that still sport a large latin influence and strong rentals, like Florida (I've looked a little bit outside Miami..Boca Raton, Tampa, West Palm Beach, etc). 

As we all know, Real Estate is a Team Sport.

And depending how it goes down, maybe I counter there counter just for the fun of the sport, all depends.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Weekends for a lot of people are usually tied up with kids sports, family functions and trips.

I remember once I was in a nice area of ATL at a closing and the attornies office was hot I asked whats up he said his two condenser got stolen that night LOL.. its a very active sport out East of the rockies we just dont hear of this on the west coast..

Plus there's sports there to continue to boost the area.