On the way down entire industries blossomed and boomed, at the bottom, and on ride up.

Day night and all in between looking for ANYTHING that could be a red flag (gangbangers, graffiti, broken windows etc) When I see kids riding bikes, fruit vendors on the corner, you know its not super terrible. 

The question is do you ride out the next real estate dip?

The issue is, from my understanding he does not fully recognize all the rehab that needs to be done to be compared to housing prices nearby (600k~).I do not want to take this guy for a ride, but I also do not want to overpay, all while trying to be respectful when making an offer.

I am not a huge fan of it because the buyer gets taken for a ride all across the board. 

I've been a member of several such groups, but only one, Lifeonaire, deserves full credit for lifting me from the depths of despair and then completely re-shaping my entire world to be the amazing and exciting carnival ride I enjoy today!

All of my properties are walking distance from the light rail making it a quick ride into the city.

Get ready for the ride and good luck. 

I'm not Alina and I don't want to speak for her, but one potential angle that one can take is that a 7 to 10 year holding period might be relatively safer than a 3 year holding period at this moment in time because a good syndicator will secure a 13 year term loan at a nice low rate and will be able to ride out the next down cycle.

To make myself seem much less boring than it may seem, I do have some activities that I enjoy outside of browsing the BP forums and listening to podcasts on my Metro rides to and from work.