The meth heads are moving to the fringes for the most part.

I was also fortunate that was when the market was heating up and I was buying on the fringe of good areas.

If you go to the fringes it gets cheaper but then you are a few wrong turns away from being in the middle of the Cleveland ghetto.

I think there are better values to be had in the fringe communities, e.g.

Instead I focus on houses that are on the "fringe".  

I like pocket neighborhoods on the fringes of the city.

However I've been there several times in the past few months and have driven and walked around to start to get my bearings and from my naive view of the city so far it seems that it's quite obvious where there is heavy crime and where the fringe areas meld with the "up & coming".... though I realize it's not as simple as that of course when you're talking which investment property to buy from another.

Creating a situation where your passive income meets your cost of living is truly what makes you financially free allowing you the time to work on your real life goals, whatever they may be.Might I suggest that if your goal is to stay in the austin area and create passive income you may want to look at some of the more suburban and fringe areas outside of the city.

Unlicensed brokers, acting as fringe operators skirting the laws have nothing to lose.

Unlicensed brokers, acting as fringe operators skirting the laws have nothing to lose.