7700 - 7702 NE 3rd Ct Miami, FL 33138Strategy: Value Add Investment / FlipAcquired 4/12/2016 for $230,000Mortgage: $161,000 (private hard money lender)Down payment: $69,000Sold: 7/14/2016 for $324,000 (92 days after acquisition)Renovation cost: $5,100Net Profit (after holding costs, closing costs, and capital expenditures): $81,000Total Hold Time: 92 daysCash on Cash ROI: approximately just over 100+% in 92 days; annualized ROI = 396+%This is a classic example of a small value add deal -- with an amazing ROI -- in the bustling emerging investment neighborhood of Little River in Miami, FL.

I've been in the Chicago burbs for over 35 years and Cinci is so laid back compared to Chicago...I worked a few years downtown on Michigan Ave and the hustle-bustle is just insane...I didn't enjoy that environment. 

This is a wild video to say the least: This guy just walks around the famous and formerly bustling Embarcadero in San Francisco and it is a ghost town.

Once upon a time in the bustling world of real estate, there was a passionate wholesaler named Alex.

This includes towns like Marblehead, Rockport, Essex, Gloucester, and a bit further north to Rowley, Newbury, Newburyport is a great place with a bustling boardwalk, great restaurants and plenty of events including Yankee Homecoming in July.

It is being sold by an elderly couple who used to run a fairly bustling vacation rental business there years ago (according to them), but scaled it down as they got older.  

Prior to that, "pop tops" were the redevelopment method of choice, starting in the 80s.Prior to that, there was very little neighborhood redevelopment because the new neighborhoods were still close in and there was a huge selection of brand new houses.Jane Jacobs talks about the bustling NYC neighborhoods that got too reliant on only one industry (like shirtmaking).

People who have money 1%People who owe money 99%Egypt and Cleopatra, Deja Vu?

It already has the bustling downtown scene.

As a young man trying to survive in America, the Army took me all across America, Haiti, Egypt, Kuwait, etc... these days I travel for leisure in and out of country.