The market here offers a lot of potential.I highly recommend making a trip here to get a feel for the different neighborhoods and understand where the best opportunities lie.

In neighborhoods that won't attract high credit score tenants, I've found that a stable job history with a MINIMUM of 1 year at current or previous job to be the best indicator of a great tenant. 

I now live back in CA, and my portfolio runs fully managed, but getting there took a lot of legwork upfront.A few things that stood out from your post:•If you’re focused on appreciation over cash flow, you’ll want to be highly selective in Detroit.

I would say 225k around average to stay out of high risk zones.

I highly suggest getting to some local meetup groups...here is BPs list:  https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-real-estate-events-...I also have a full list of the chicago meetups that I can share with you too if that'd be helpful.

Leveraging a property in todays environment of high interest rates will not get you cash flowing. 

That seems suddenly shady.My bank is reversing the charges and blacklisting them.Like I said, it's a shame as I really had high hopes for this working.Maybe I'll find something else someday.

I want someone who knows and is doing marketing for listings and its working for me to give me advice if possible it would be highly appreciated. 

Looking for a turn around scanrio is an ego pleaser, makes for a great story if it works, but high risk it will never pan out the way you thought.

The risk to my business is much too high just so the agent can make a little more money on the transaction.