Safe rent after rehab is $900 per month, maybe higher if I get lucky and/or rehab it to a very nice condition.  

With over a decade of real estate investing experience and over 100 flips, I now provide private money & hard money loans. For my own portfolio I'm focusing on commercial deals and coaching fellow RE investors. I ...

I know that I am taking a huge risk by wanting to build but the existing properties are either in areas I’d never live in or too far away from the Metro Detroit area and I really want to come back to the city in the safer parts before I’m priced out in the future. 

It's safer to at least have alarms in n doors if not the fencing.  

It's an asset that will continue to grow as more and more people and institutions begin to adopt it as a safer hedge against inflation than precious metals. 

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Quote from @Tim Delaney: Quote from @Nilusha Jayasinghe: Quote from @Tim Delaney: It sounds like you would be in a good position to invest some or all of the RE emergency fund in a “safer” index fund.

We are planning to purchase a home and convert it into a community living space for people in recovery.

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