As @Leo Watts mentioned, there are multiple factors at play. The

That being said, we never chase the market rise and play the appreciation in any deal.  

I would play the role as project manager basically doing everything considering they’re out of town.

If this rough area is gentrifying or appears that it will, then you could play the very long strategy but eh it's a bit risky.

That being said, there is a degree of "reasonableness" at play. The

Best tip to play the wholesaling game fast. 

The nice part of being the old man in the room is I can just plug along on my path and don't even desire to play the game hard like you young bucks and does do.I can invest in single family for all cash in B - C areas for cash flow and you youngsters can tell me how much more I could make with leverage in multi family and I can just turn down my hearing aids and chuckle.

Just to play the devils advocate, In Baltimore there is no financing available.

The future is never predictable, but the education that you use to get you to a successful place on the purchase is where the best part of investing comes into play. The

People are still going to play the game, but as margins continue to disappear, those losses will be mitigated by lowering quality, both quality of goods and quality of construction - but building crappy units is nothing new (see any Ivory home ever built)Go look at literally ANY of the brand new condo or townhouse developments that are getting built in UT or SL county.