close enough commute but prices are still suppressed.

The neighborhood is quiet and charming and I assume the investor wanting to buy the vacant lot will most likely either hold for a while or build on it soon.

As stated in a previous post there already is a shortage of primary care Drs. and when Obamacare gets fully implemented with the suppression of Drs. ability to make decisions about patient care because of government panel oversight the independent minded people who go into medicine will not do so because they don't want to spend their youth in school and residency, come out with $200,000+ in debt and then be told how to do their job by the gov't.

Believe me - it works like a charm.

Maybe that is the "beauty" or uniqueness or charm of living in an old house.

Your costs will be highly variable given the condition of the "shell" as well as how much electrical, security, fire suppression work is required by local codes. 

It also allows each unit to have complete control over the heating and cooling, vs a shared zoned HVAC which is similar to a condo.Fire should not be able to propagate through the HVAC, so if it's a shared HVAC, it'll need some sort of fire suppression system.

Although it can have some negative connotations, ignore those, they are from the PC folks.Basically it is when a poorer, older, run-down yet formerly charming neighborhood slowly transforms into an up-and-coming, hip area.

But there are some beeeeautiful suburbs & Clevelanders really love their city & aren’t all about to pack up & abandon it & move to the sun belt, despite what census data says about the inner city of Cleveland.Go visit in person & actually speak with people & you’ll see that they love the Midwestern charm of Ohio, and they love their cities of Cleveland, Cincinnati & Columbus, and they love their sports teams (yes, even the Browns have a rabid following after 30 yrs of misery - that should tell you something about Clevelanders’ loyalty to their great city right there) and they especially love Buckeye Nation... and they’re not even thinking of mass migration to Arizona despite what the occasional headline in USA Today says :)

.), but values are still suppressed.