Look forward to following your progress @Robert Fountain!

That's not to say there aren't a few duplexes scattered around in the more desirable areas (Fountain Square and Bates Hendricks, for example).

I'm finally ready to get involved in the forums and drink from the fountain of knowledge. 

I'm a new investor and I'm currently looking in the Fountain square/Bates-Hendricks/Garfield Park neighborhoods.

I encourage you to take advantage of the fountain of knowledge and experiences you have to learn from investors all over the country.

A fountain of knowledge and experiences to learn from all over the country.

I am glad to be apart of such a wide variety of experience and looking forward to continuing to get educated from the fountain of knowledge on bigger pockets.

If the rents go up then investors are willing to pay more (appreciation) because the numbers still work.Look at some historic house values in a neighborhood outside of Indianapolis http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Fountain-Squa...Note how the prices increased dramatically over the last 15 years (price tax history tables).Consider areas in Memphis such as the Cooper-Young district that is seeing revitalization.

I tested a few "neighborhoods" in the application, and the unfortunately data can be highly misleading (Note:  How this website defines "neighborhoods" may be different than common definitions (one simple example would be how they define the borders of Fountain Square - I don't think that most real estate professionals would say that Fountain Square goes that far east).Also, if you take as an example a neighborhood like Butler-Tarkington, on the south end (38th-42nd), it can be quite rough and $50k houses can be found readily, but in the northern end of the exact same neighborhood, you can find beautiful virtual mansions with manicured lawns which can easily be $500k - $1MM.So, just to summarize, while there are some "tools" which can be helpful, this just further illustrates once again, how difficult & challenging, Indianapolis can be & how one must do their own due diligence.Best,Matthew

It seems like there is effort being put into gentrifying some of those rough areas, e.g. fountain square.