Younger/newer agents looking to get deals under their belt will be your bread and butter here.

In those cases you have the training with your body to increase your odds of defending yourself along with common items in your surroundings you can use as weapons. ( Belt, keys, mop handle, walls, stairs etc. )Unless people have been attacked in real life they have no clue what it is like.

Below are the reports for the following areas:30310 - Adair Park - good value for a belt line neighborhood 30312 - O4W - overall very pricey hard to find good deals that you can make money if cash flow is your objective.30315 - Grant Park/Peoplestown etc You can find some value properties not in Grant Park but around peoplestown, summer hill and other areas30316 - EAV- prices high overall prices have been heated for a whileGood Luck

Now that I have some actual experience under my belt, I'd invest anywhere on the southside if the numbers make sense.

Once you have a deal or two under your belt, you can enter a deal with more confidence without an agent. 

Good Day, I have one investment property purchase under my belt.

First I highly recommend you find your own agent and not deal with the listing agent until you have a few closes under your belt.

My wife and I are new to BP and the real estate investing world. we recently bought our first home, and we are looking to build our portfolio.we have no money no credit and we have been reading on bp about low money/no money should not stop us. we like the idea of flipping homes and holding after a couple of flips under our belts. also we like the abandon/distressed homes in our target areas and our plan is to send them yellow letter and seeing what happens from there. thank you for all your support and advice in advance.

I have called around to a few banks and they want the house to be at least $60K and be purchased outside the 270 belt.

If its your burning desire to run and manage SFR's for a living then I think moving to Detroit and setting up shop is an excellent idea.. and I think you can do that in a number of rust belt cities.. and some cities in the deep south and basically achieve the same results..