For many here, it's about salvaging what remains of a once-great city.Throughout its long decline, Detroit has sought ways to restore to its former glory a city that was home to 1.8 million people, pinning its hopes on grandiose plans for the automotive industry or casinos.With just 700,000 people left, ambitions are now focused on making less populated neighborhoods viable and repurposing land, perhaps for urban farming.

Or an antique restoration or history buff (it's from 1841).

[b]Long story short.....well kinda: My partner and I have opened an office doing Taxes, Notary, Credit Restoration, and dabbling in Real Estate Investing.

Bill Gulley , if you just make 1 addition to your list....If you include a masseuse for daily full body massages, you have a deal!

When they show ...have everything ready ....massage shoulder some abit of pain face Roof gets done free

I looked at an abandoned property on a cul-de-sac where neighbors not only took great care of yards, but came over to greet me and encourage the purchase and restoration!

The remodeling/renovation/restoration business is one of the grayest, most complicated businesses in existence.

I am a massage therapist and I do a little bit of graphic design on the side (not much though)I know real estate has been hot here for quite awhile and I got interested in it almost a decade ago, but life happened and I forgot about it.

These distressed properties are typically consolidated in a few areas with some subdivisions getting hammered in valuation creating a higher foreclosure rate than normal.My goal is to create urban land trusts set up to restore the environment and build up not out.

The restoration company told me to pick my colors.