High quality renters, as well as potential buyers, will continue to be priced out of the downtown Boston/Cambridge/Somerville markets, and this should drive solid price appreciation in Malden as folks flock here as a relatively inexpensive place to live where you can still work downtown and take public transportation. 

We're probably looking at low income neighborhoods on fairly busy streets and/or near public transportation.

If it works well its easy to duplicate, also in the long run when its time to amass all of your units into a trailer park, or make one mega home, whatever you wanted to do with them.. you could throw them on a train to transport your unit and ride in it to.

I really like this area's promise due in part to the excellent transportation system, job accessibility, new retailers and the numerous schools.  

Is it close to public transportation where parking isn't necessary for a commute?  

In our view, DFW has some very unique characteristics most important is middle of the country logistics / transportation hub (great freeway system, rail and DFW airport), HQs for a growing number of companies in diverse industries.  

It's a wonderful little town that's managed well and close to shopping and transport.  

Perhaps someone else can do a better job of explaining...Oh, and when I say "C+" area, I mean an area that is probably mostly blue collar, has average schools, has relatively low crime (or at least low violent crime), established neighborhoods with older housing stock, relatively large number of renters, plenty of public transportation, etc.

Many tenants will take into consideration parking ratios when they compare properties, especially if the building isn't located near public transportation.

When we called him out on the mistake, he got very defensive, made up a horrible excuse for why it took two weeks to get the second appraisal, and basically said, “I don’t really care what you think, I’ll schedule the closing for whenever I feel like it.â€Well, it pissed us off, but given that we thought we’d close the following week, we didn’t want to do anything drastic, and let it be.Once the second appraisal was completed, the broker sent the information to the Department of Transportation to have it processed so they could cut the buyers a check (the buyer’s are getting their down-payment from the DOT because of some weird eminent domain situation).