The ones I’ve come across are in areas with boarded-up houses throughout the blocks, which I’m not quite ready to invest in as a new investor.

That is the thing that will eventually get you over the hump, not talking to realtors who, for the most part, don't know anything about working with investors and have heard the "once I get this first property, I am going to keep going" dialogue a million times.If you want to market yourself, the best thing to do is to walk a five-block radius that you really want to buy in.

Tokenization of real estate assets can take numerous forms, but what you’re proposing is to separate the real estate “bundle of rights”, have the property owner sell one or more “rights” but not all of those rights, and represent the ownership of the rights that have been sold by tokenization utilizing block chain technology rather than the county “filing” systems currently in use.  

So I am not completely sure but maybe it is because it was blocked for so long.

So we would buy the aceage and since the legal descriptions still called out lot and block we would just start to deed out the lots to get them on the tax rolls and the Assessor would change the maps. 

The market can be tricky with its block-by-block nature, but it's been a great fit for all-cash purchases like yours.I also have a team on the ground in Detroit that helps manage everything from finding deals to overseeing rehabs, which is crucial for out-of-state investors.

One block may be legal, the next block may not be.

Its the "blocking and tackling" and going with the basics that keep you out of 90% of the problems that we see people have.

IF you don't know the number or the caller, don't answer and block. 

Our house is in the R2 zone (4 blocks off main) and the process to transfer the permit back in March was a breeze.