Not great as in lower income, higher crime, and from what I can tell driving through, mostly African American neighborhood.

Taxes here are sky high but we get good returns with this factored in.Our properties are in an African America section of town that some investors are afraid of.

My interest rate  from the bank is 8.5% which is quite good in South African terms.

Hi @Jedrick Theron, Unfortunately there is a lot that is not relevant for South Africa but there is a ton of principles and brilliant ideas to learn from, adapt for South African opportunities and execute.

Using the president example, you would have also seen a jump in African-American investors over the past 8 years in REI.

Hi, I'm Souh African, living in Cape Town, I am really eager to start my first flip investment, but I'm struggling locating a trustworthy HML.. 

This one is almost as common as the African prince or out of country lottery scam.

Also, it is not only the African American community.

It showed this old Caucasian guy, but during the call I noticed by his action that he is African American. 

As a dirt poor NY Immigrant that grew up from a 2 year old in the late 60s, living in the Alphabet City neighborhood in Manhattan, my experience by being beat up by virtually every kind of Gang, Hispanic, African Americans, Whites ( Irish and Italian gangs basically), etc.... embedded into me that Race plays both an obvious and subtle role in our City and I'm sure that extends throughout our Nation.