Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.

A combination of extremely tough long term tenant protections and the economics of short term renting being a lot more attractive. 

The city has been doing extremely well and it hasn't quite gone mainstream with most investors yet.Happy to share some resources and learnings on the market there if you'd like.

After today’s experience with the extra “PM” fee tacked onto the already extremely high placement fee, I felt I had to say something.

And when it comes unraveled, implications CAN BE extreme, INCLUDING jail/prison time for it. 

Section 8 rentals are frequently located in extremely low barrier of entry markets, especially the single-family homes and small multi-family properties which I assume has also led to an influx of inventory.

@Chris Kay finding a quality, cost-effective contractor is extremely difficult:(There are thousands of contractors that are great talkers, but rarely perform within budget.Standard bait & switch is to lowball a bid, then once they get started all sorts of things "pop up" that somehow their bid didn't cover.

That data would be sales price after remodel (the true numbers some agents really don't have the experience to be comping the property), the days on market you will experience (this is great info because you want to recycle the money quickly), and resources to sell the place fast not slowly which you do not want this because this could put your holding costs extremely high and push the property to little profit or no profit. 

I'll give an extreme example of the differences.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.DM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!