I say if your going to move to Lakeland and this goes for anyone look to move here explore the avenues that have the least amount of competition, raw land in residential subdivisions, agricultural, luxury developments 1+ acres land.

Seek the raw potential that can be improved.5.

If it is raw land, you will need to finish the lot.

It was divided by a factor of 10 to help normalize for the fact that there will always be a baseline level of vacancy in any MSA.If you'd like to dig in further, all of the details are in this Excel doc, along with instructions about how to pull all of the raw data.CONCLUSIONBeing very new to REI and BP, I’d love your feedback and suggestions to improve this analysis and also to hear whether the ranking is in line with your own expectations.I currently live in CA and am looking to invest out-of-state, which sparked my curiosity about other markets.

Won't get into any general Detroit bashing.I will say that a lot of times properties are super cheap for a reason...I am sure that there are great deals to be had there but you probably have to know the areas well to be able to see the deals from the stuff that isn't worth getting for free.My personal opinion is that out of state investing is tougher when you are still pretty raw like you are.

I would really like to hear everyone's opinion about whether or not you think it's a good idea to put a home's price on the For Sale sign in the front yard.I'll withhold my opinion for now so I don't pollute the raw data.

If you wanted most of the raw day then look there.

The properties I successfully fliped include a 10 unit apartment house, raw land, two automotive repair facilities, and a retail store front.

Raw land is hard to get financing on.

I'd encourage you to not just look at raw counts, but cash listings / total listings.