Other overlooked improvements can be gardening or landscaping.

You may also have some luck north (Miami Gardens, or Hialeah), but you'll have to be careful about neighborhoods.  

We chose our location further uptown in the Uptown/Garden District area so our main draw is the local restaurants, historic buildings, easy access to public transportation, and very safe area.

I live in Palm Beach Gardens myself.

Speaking of which I have a whole lease addendum for livestock talking about pigs and how they must be kept, how many chicks can be brooded in the house, how and for how long,  saying yes a baby goat can be kept in the garden tub for up to a week old, which you don't see in them fancy city slicker leases.

no charge if it's close by livonia or westland or garden city and surrounding areas 

Used to live in Garden Valley.

Maybe we sell for 600k and buy a 250k garden home and buy a 7 or 8unit with the profit.

We had two garden-level units come very close to being completely inundated with a sewage backup that came up the drain by their back door, which I dealt with by rushing to Home Depot and buying the biggest shop vac they had, then rushing back over to the property and sucking up the liquid nastiness just as it was about to go over the threshold into the units.

:•Martin J Saenz,"Note Investing Made Easier" & "Note Investing Fundamentals": •Fuquan Bilal, "Turning Distress into Success : The New Book for Wealth Building Breakthroughs and Enhancing Income Investments" & "Passion for Real Estate Investments": •Dave Van Horn, Real Estate Note Investing: Using Mortgage Notes to Passively and Massively Increase Your Income":•Jim Napier, "Invest in Debt: The "How To" Book on "Buying Paper" for Cash Flow":•Gordon Moss, “Performance Anxiety: Creating A Fortune Investing in Non-Performing Real Estate Loans”: