Sticking their nose to it and inhaling sharply?

The first was a six year old house with a busted foundation, though the house was supported just right that the "house proper" was still in generally great shape, minus some minor aesthetics, though no major stress fractures in the living portion.

They are a 'hold your nose and buy' purchase, because buyers value them, and sometimes they make a house sell more quickly.Don't forget to read about all the exclusions in the pages of fine print.

Columbus multi-fam housing stock is highly fractured between expensive wealthy suburbs/trendy gentrification areas and urban decay, with very little in between.

Stockton will be a much tougher sell for most of you than Sacramento, for all the reasons I listed here in my guide on how/where to invest in Stockton (still highly relevant):https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/627/topics/424510-how-to-invest-in-stockton-ca---a-detailed-overviewA large part of the reason most investors turn their nose up on Stockton is because of all the bad headlines.

We saw the psychological damage caused by their family being fractured at an early age and continue to see them struggle even today.

I grew up in 33604, just up from the River and near Lowry Park, but talk about an area taking a nose dive, sad to see! 

It also seems to me you get no SE tax and eligibility for 1031s traded against losses against ordinary income capped at $25k if you are a NON dealer/professional.

I'd also very much agree that a lot of people out there chasing dollars have no idea what they are doing and many wouldn't recognize a good deal if it punched them in the nose. 

With the direction that we are headed we need a great man or woman to step forward and tell America and the world that they got this, that they will lead us, and that they will once again unite us.I served over seas for years and I know what countries look like that are fractured by their differences.