You may need to shop quite a while, plan on rehab or wait until market conditions favor buyers (then be brave because buying when there is blood in the streets is scary).

But if you follow my responses here on BP, I am not afraid of what people say or think about me and I do not hold my punches when something simply is wrong.If you are wrong you are wrong... and I am not going to sugar coat it when someone is simply wrong.

But my aunt and I worked fast to get him out legally (bite the bullet and get a lawyer)No bad blood but lesson(s) learned.

The more complex things get compared to that "baseline," the more appealing it likely is (this is probabilities game) to work with someone that isn't forced to take the table scraps from a marketing department, because they're able to bring it in the door with things such as their competence, or other attributes/deliverables.A company I once worked for was recently purchased by a big discount real estate brokerage, I stay in touch with my old colleagues (there's no bad blood or anything).

By related, I mean that I would count a married couple or blood relatives as one person and then I would allow one unrelated person.

I’m of the firm opinion that you’ll get more flies with sugar than with vinegar. 

In the same statement he says "the recovery is firmly intact", then he goes on to say "but the recovery is weak".Read between the lines Bryan, these people are sugar coating this thing.

You need to have real estate pumping through your blood (or at least it gets your blood pumping) or it might not be your cup of tea.

I believe for a neighborhood to change for the better, it takes new blood, people that come from the outside and who are going to be houseproud and who want to protect this new investment and who are looking at it with new eyes.I really believe that Pittsburgh has a ton of potential, because of location (2 miles south of Downtown, right on 75/85 and 20, right next to the Beltline, but that it will only be able to get better with major change, like the Beltline and property values going up, because people move in and speak up.

Motor City Wine, Sugar House, Mercury Bar, Detroit Institure of Bagels, Astro Cofee, etc have all opened in the last three years.