We started with the kids bathroom.  

Ab&b is the new kid on the block and has monopolized the entire industry. 

So if you live there with kids your property taxes do not pay for schools?

We called every single local/community bank in CT (I am not kidding) and asked to speak to whoever handles their commercial loans and asked them about their portfolio loan programs if they had anyFinally we connected with one that does portfolio loans and what do you know he happened to already know our hard money lender really well and had refi'ed deals financed by him before.

But I can tell you that in 2 visits the kid I hired got me about 700 leads.

How much left is left on these homes, where I can pass them onto my kids as an "asset" instead of a crumbling pile of 2x4s?

You have just stumbled onto the most common form of rentals to college kids. 

Also great for folks without kids or kids too young to be in school as the neighborhood type doesn't matter.

As  kid I'd spend summers there and I'm over 40 so this is a while ago.   

let's not kid ourselves... not very likely since the cost of entry is high. good luck anyway.