I have never been to Houma, but when I was stationed at Barksdale AFB I used to go to NOLA a few times a year...good times!

I think that gravy train has left the station, even though there are many people who will try to convince you it hasn't.

Additionally, most such projects are mixed use where the developers must add other units at market rates and even commercial retail, maybe throw in a new fire station and parks for the area, so all in all, there is alot to it.

By the way...I'm a retired Army Master Sergeant, but was never stationed anywhere here in Texas.

There are lots of very simple and effective way to market that you buy houses without spending a lot of money from signs in the yard, bandit signs around the neighborhood, negotiating with a local business that has a blank wall facing a major street (think gas station on a corner) to hang a banner on the side.

However; there were pay stations that opened to the lobby where people would pay their taxes.

But if he bought even one property that was a derelict gas station, an old dry-cleaner or industrial site, he bought himself a bill from the EPA for cleanup.

Originally from Eugene, OR but stationed in Norfolk, VA.

The complex my daughter rented in had specific smoking stations located outside the buildings about 100 feet from front entrance with benches and can for ashes, and every tenant had to sign that there would be no smoking in any part of the building, including patios.

I have discovered that where I am stationed (Camp Lejeune, NC), I would never seriously consider investing here (in SFH or MF) because the purchase price to rental income is incredibly skewed and it would be hard/impossible to make the kind of returns I am used to back in Grand Rapids.