I see tons of what appear to be vacant or visually distressed properties on or close to my route.

I'm one of these people that enjoys remodels (when I have time) and being creative anyway, and I believe that when something is clean and visually attractive it attracts a larger pool of potential tenants.Thanks again for reassuring me of my thoughts to just get rid of these people and tell them good luck finding another place like it for the money.

Unfortunately in my market, there may not be more than five or six multi-family on the market at one time.When I am looking at SFRs where there could be dozens, it works better visually just by scanning down the list of asking prices when I know the basic rent rates in an area.  

This will help give you a good visual of what to expect.Best of luck!

It's all up to you for visual appeal.

Read this article: https://www.biggerpockets.com/... and then when you can begin to visualize where you see yourself as an RE investor, then try to read more of the forums pertaining to that topic.

These are just a few factors among thousands of other influences that I’m sure will impact peoples’ investing and home buying behavior.We can visualize and see the situation that could potentially come together before us.

If I were adding Curb Appeal to this Duplex here is what I would do: *I added a fun rendering mock up for visual explanation, things are not to scale so don't come after me!

I work for a visual-first communication app with a specialization in the trades that include agents, property managers, contractors etc.

Plus the calculators here present a wonderful visual especially when you bind them up with other material in a nice folder.