Norfolk if you know it.As the title suggests I am returning back to Chicagoland in the spring, my wife is from there and we spent a number of years there together in Oak Park ,one of the Western Suburbs.Anyway we are looking to invest in some real property to provide for us in our dotage.Off to hunt round the site now.

You have to eat a lot of paint chips in order to get lead poisoning from my training at Sherwin-Williams.

How about Royal Oak?

If it is, he cashes in the chips and move on to the next project.

@Wendell De GuzmanI used to live in the city before moving out to Oak Pk so I would probably look to relocate back around there.I can see what you are saying about the hands off passive nature of being an investor.

We have 6 more on Crest so let's all have high comps together ;-)The other two Oak Springs projects should be completed early in 2014 right down the street from you.

I am currently investing a lot of time reaching the Ferndale, Royal Oak, Berkley, Pleasant Ridge, and Oak Park markets.

Detroit, Royal Oak) in discussion.

Starts at 7pm tonight in Oak Forest.

Although I am looking in a different area (Ferndale, Oak Park, Royal Oak, Berkley) I have seen home in not so nice areas of some of those cities go from $40,000-$50,000 prices to anywhere from $80,000+, making returns minimal.