By the end of the baseball or football season, I'm burned out.

They're all Ivy League lawyers (=stupid)...

Multi-family is really the only answer and there are two options, stay on the 2-4 unit playground via residential financing or play in the big leagues with commercial financing. 

I bough it for roughly 87k, and I purchased it because the area is growing and it's close to entertainment (Football, Baseball, Six Flags, Hurricane Harbor, Texas Live, restaurants, bars, etc - You get the point).

A baseball player myself, so I travel quite a bit, just curious how some of you in any area got started.

It has been really lucrative for the past 2.5 years, but I am ready to jump into the "big leagues" once I move up to Connecticut.

I feel that a 2-4 unit with 2 bedrooms in each is going to cash flow better while bringing in a better class of tenant.I might be out of my league in saying this but I don't imagine many quality metro Detroit renters wanting sharp looking, expensive 1 bedrooms in an older building not originally designed to hold the 5 other units it does.

If a call goes past 30 minutes it is because we ended up talking about baseball or the weather or something.

BUT it's right across the street from an elementary school and youth baseball fields. 

As the 10th largest media market we have all major sports leagues, arts & theater, great schools, major and stable corporate employers like 3M, Target, Best Buy, Honeywell, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, St Jude Medical, Cummins, and many more.