I'd argue there is not a warzone in Charlotte.IMHO, I think a smarter way to look at your area is in tiers or bands of risk, A, B, C, etc. or segments.

It's a volume segment, so you have  ahuge pool of eople to draw from.

It's hard to stand out.There are some owner-occupied segments with people who share motivating factors for selling their home.Seniors with Long-time Ownership: often ready to downsize or transition to assistance.Homeowners with Low Financial Stability Scores (FSS): Struggling financially and likely ready to cash in on their asset.Both these categories have additional advantages in that they probably don’t haven’t been updated and may have deferred maintenance.

Opening it up to those that want your properties as their live space, opens you up to the entire market, not just that very small segment.

I am sitting on cash and lost little in the stock market because I don't invest much there.What is giving me cold feet is the giant number of unemployed, the number of companies that will never be back, and the attitude of entitlement being sown by a growing segment of politicians and population in general............."

There is lots of big money in this segment, you would be running with the big investors.

Durham Region is growing, getting better commuter trains into the city, getting 3 new freeway segments and is physically closer to the city than the other three popular investment destinations. 

There is a huge segment of the market that needs affordable, family friendly housing where I live.

They can be replaced by an RV, mobile home, or apartment at a moment's notice once they change their mind one day.And what about things like this that call the whole thing into doubt on a popular website consumed by the very people that would buy them:  http://www.treehugger.com/tiny-houses/is-the-tiny-house-movement-big-lie.htmlI'm not saying there isn't a place for these in the housing segment, I just think it's reached its peak.  

With real estate crowdfunding, hypermarket segmentation is available.