South Bend, IN Neighborhoods & Zipcodes

[Kuda H.]

Hi Folks,

Can anyone recommend neighborhoods or zipcodes that are favorable for Single Family buy and holds in South Bend, IN.

I am also looking to build a good team out there so if anyone can recommend an investor friendly realtor that would be great. Some 'boots on the ground' advice would also be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Aaron Linden]

@Kuda H. First of all South Bend is very neighborhood by neighborhood. I would advise against classifying it by zip code. If you want to get to know the city @Account Closed is the right guy. To be honest, I think the city does a fairly good job of treading the balance between protecting residents and landlords and overall Indiana is a LL friendly state.

Perhaps being only 2 hours away you could come visit for a weekend and drive around to determine what types of neighborhoods you would be interested in. The rest of the information can be easily had by doing some crime searches, rental analysis, and by doing some simple sales searches.

Regardless, we have a lot of good business coming to town what with ND being a recent advocate, the revitalization of downtown, the warehouses going up on the west side, and most recently an electric car company purchased the old AM Gen factory and has committed to building electric cars here. The flip side is that I think the downtown area is being overbuilt with A Class properties. I think this could drive down rents in that sector creating competition in the B and then C sector. This is pure speculation and would likely only apply to apartment prices.