The ones I’ve come across are in areas with boarded-up houses throughout the blocks, which I’m not quite ready to invest in as a new investor.

That is the thing that will eventually get you over the hump, not talking to realtors who, for the most part, don't know anything about working with investors and have heard the "once I get this first property, I am going to keep going" dialogue a million times.If you want to market yourself, the best thing to do is to walk a five-block radius that you really want to buy in.

I do like now though on our sig blocks we can put our website and then link to our projects but you know those could be fake to I could be faking all my projects.. :)

Now I would say many contractors do not do this with malicious intent.

One block may be legal, the next block may not be.

There's a four a few blocks from my house with a handwritten "For Sale" sign, asking $200k, claiming $3150 per month rent.

I can't help but think there is something more malicious here than just a bad investment by looking at the facts.

I can't help but think there is something more malicious here than just a bad investment by looking at the facts. 

So we would buy the aceage and since the legal descriptions still called out lot and block we would just start to deed out the lots to get them on the tax rolls and the Assessor would change the maps. 

Our house is in the R2 zone (4 blocks off main) and the process to transfer the permit back in March was a breeze.