No one here has to love pit bulls, I happen to love dogs, all of them, and the amount of misinformation here is depressing  

It looks like a money pit to bring them back to life, and the average income in Oak Cliff is a paltry 45k a year, so you'll be hard pressed to ask for $1700 a month (I noticed they just built tons - and are building tons more - brand new apartments left and right which I would think would depress the rent market for the older surrounding busted up homes).  

As I start to think about the availability of obtaining hard money loans (and other sources of financing) over the coming years, I can't help but be worried that my options may be more limited in a weakened economy.What is the relationship between the US economy and the availability of financing (particularly hard money lending) in depressed markets?

From hurricanes to trade policies, the last few years have been difficult... and land values remain depressed.

I was clinically depressed from my time at college, and anxious to be productive.In July 2018 I was diagnosed with ADHD, inattentive type.

@Johnathan Williams, the most value is added with roof repairs, mold remediation and water penetration causing mold, flooring and siding repair that are CLEARLY rotten and would CLEARLY depress the price if sold "as is," complete rewiring if the electrical is old enough, and hvac repair but not upgrade.

And while I’m not new to RE investing, I am new to investing in an area as depressed as this one is.

The last time we had an unemployment rate as high as that was the recession of the early 1980s, and the last time we had an equities and housing collapse as bad as that was the great depression.

I recently published the book, “Broke to A Quarter Million” on Amazon and am getting some of the same responses from investors and people who have yet to invest.The main concern I want to address is that yes I built this strategy around depressed cities and I used Fall River Massachusetts as it is where I grew up.There are many other cities around the country where the “Broke to a Quarter Million” strategy works all across the country for example:Massachusetts has: Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Brockton, North Attleboro, Worcester, Springfield, Holyoke, Lowell, Lynn Lawrence, Chelsea, BostonRhode Island has: Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, ProvidenceConnecticut has: Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Danbury, New London, New Milford, Westbrook CenterNew York has: New York, Monticello, Hempstead, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Mount Vernon, Liberty, Beacon, Mechanicstown, Spring ValleyI would say that instead of say this doesn’t work in my city.

Of the 12 recessions since the Great Depression, real estate prices nationally continued to rise during 10 of them.