Nice diamond in the rough!

If you've got the stomach for diamonds in the rough, there's a lot of upside.  

There are opportunities out there, just have to search for those diamonds in the rough.  

Not withstanding some great points that @Mike Cumbie just mentioned,   selling your home yourself is akin to Tiffany's selling a diamond ring at a garage sale.  

Median in Sacramento is like $300-325k so you're nowhere near the higher end of the spectrum unfortunately.But, you could definitely find some diamonds in the coal mine looking in C grade neighborhoods.

Adeiza Jatto My advice that I tell everyone on where to start is either :if you ski (or wish to ski), would you start on a black diamond or an easier slope ?

However, I am still interested in using webscraping and database analysis to find hidden diamonds in the rough.  

So today was a day of bad news... after finding a diamond in the rough which was a Duplex with minimum repairs (under a $1000) which would be just some cosmetics and new sheetrock repair.

Your return would be great in DC but that property is so expensive either you would have to find the diamond in the rough or a revitalization area that no one knows about, yet.

Could the frustration be that the market has changed such that it is difficult to find "diamonds in the rough" on the open market but more people wanting them?