Of course, being near Nashville is great for people who love a city with a unique identity, innovation and entrepreneurship, culture, music, food, art, nature, etc, etc.It's more challenging to find good deals in the city now, as it has been a really hot market, but there are still deals to be found a little farther out.Congrats on taking bold steps to improve your life!

PM me, I'm into new economic innovative construction.

A couple of ideas we've been brainstorming:Postcards shaped differently, maybe in the shape of a houseBig text offering to make a $1 donation to charity for calling our number just to let us know who their current management company isHandwritten lettersPlease share any innovative ideas you may have to grab owner's attention for mailers or ways that have been successful for you in the past. 

Currently Reading/ Recently finishedThe Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M Christensen How to be a Real estate Investor by Phil Pustejovski One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch And The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Real Estate Investing by Joshua Dorkin and Brandon TurnerMuch Appreciated,Anthony Daniel Johnson

Do not try to be an innovator in Detroit or anywhere else.  

I'm looking at a 4plex that is scheduled to be auctioned by a Trustee in Nov.

My dilemma is: I need to invest relatively soon, and saving probably won't cut it so I have to get innovative to grow capital exponentially. 

I have not invested in Globe, but I have look at deals there, but I have invested in Nogales, Florence and Douglas which are very desert, small towns, when I drop $450k in Douglas my partners taught I was crazy, buying a 12 units, well I was crazy happy that I was Cash flowing great money and now just sold it, so I bought in Nov 2011 $450k sold in March 2016 $670k which made me a bit happy, never put a penny into it either. ( my partners now call me desert king and I like the term )  

Nothing really innovative or earth shattering.  

I'd like to suggest a book to you, maybe you've heard of it before – it's called The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.