Real Estate investing is definitely worth it to me, regardless of income, children, or external situations.

It's external, so you're not breathing in the thing you're hauling and it won't ruin your upholstery.

I still hear hear of deals there along with Lake Orion on occasion) but it wasn't "BS" in that I wasn't attempting to be deceptive of misleading.My point was that Detroit, like Flint, has systemic problems that are beyond all hope and no amount of external intervention can save it from itself.

Yea, RentRedi lacks the ability to even get the prior two landlords without having to use an external form.2.

Every employee in our company follows our internal mantra of, treat every home like you own it.We also use an external CPA to do our monthly reconciliation and to process our owner draws.

They want to watch DWS and then blame their lack of success on external sources rather than take responsibility for their own situation.

Often times the banks will or won't accept an offer on a property based upon some external criteria within their department on how many properties they need to move, or what percentage overall of listing price needs to be met.

The internals are mostly plastic, allowing them to easily be broken with a specialized tool, or even a screw driver, and show no external signs of forced entry.  

Are there external factors that make them bad investments?

I am also an investment real estate agent with Buckingham Investments and recently transitioned from being an external auditor with several CPA firms including Grant Thornton.