I guess kids don't play street hockey, or pickup games of baseball/pop 500 in Narragansett?

But Houston played their cards a little better and everybody abandoned Corpus for Houston.

I won't buy my own home, I only rent (until I have enough expendable cash to just play with).

This applies to all things in life, money, family, work and play.

I'm ideally looking for a somewhat dumpy multi-family home that can be fixed up and rented.

Ideally you wouldn't have to rollover your profits every time and just use your start up capital, but if you don't have that capital you are basically rolling over your profits to put together that capital and then maximize your profits by financing your own deals.

Corpus is also getting a boost from the Eagle Ford Shale play, so there is resource based jobs coming in the area that cannot be off shored.

Have you played the board game?

It's averaged about 2-3 weeks for me and often times it's only that long because I'm taking my time getting the property ready or turning down non-ideal applicants.

If it's under 15 I would just encourage going to the the chrome/play store and goggling CRM or taking up @Kenneth Estes advice.