It’s possible the right properties 3,5 or 10x over the next years.With my buddies in BA that are local real estate experts and rental managers I have access to very desirable properties to buy at a discount from an already depressed market.I would like to put together a group of investors to purchase multiple rentals and benefit from the likely appreciation due to the change in government.Any suggestions on reaching cash investors who are open to a little more risk for a much better potential return?

While I originally started this topic to find out what people were reading to prepare for the hard economic times ahead (histories of the Great Depression, etc.), I find it very interesting at the number of times the Bible has been mentioned here.And while I am more spiritual as compared to religious, I believe whole-heartedly that if the world could live by even a minimum number of the precepts set forth in the Bible, we would certainly be facing a far better future.And I would start first by applying those minimum standards to our own selves here in the U.S.

The lower-income people who lived in these communities were beneficiaries of depressed prices, which allowed them to live in an otherwise unaffordable area at the expense of people who had to take serious haircuts on their housing prices.

In lower Westchester, you may be able to find these types of properties in the depressed areas of Mt.

Right now is not going to give you a good idea of "normal", but just factor in that demand is depressed right now.  

Meeting someone one time, writing a letter for an ESA, and then never seeing them again doesn't fix anyone's anxiety, stress, depression, etc.

@Phil AndersonIf I could systematize pinpointing and fixing all the issues of Pittsburgh pre-Depression-built housing, as @Stefan Druzdzel wondered, I would be making a mint right now.If I could systematize that topic in a BP post as you're asking here, I'd be God.

Wish I could vote for it twenty times, because the highest-value stuff you write depressingly goes practically unnoticed, I've seen. 

These towns aren't depressed; they're stable.

From the little bit of poking around these markets are showing strong appreciation (bouncing back from the great depression) with slow and steady rent increases.