I try to be strategic about my purchases there, first drilling down for cashflow and then taking a step back to see if I can put myself "in the path of potential future appreciation" as I like to say.It's worked phenomenally well for me and I'll continue investing in Detroit until the masses are beating the drum on the city.I did choose market high but 1) I indicated there was better timing possible (I did not explicitly state i was using market high but I believe it was clear to most readers) 2) there are very few markets that have not recovered from the Great Recession and have current RE values lower than prior to the GR in inflation adjusted value.  

Your intro made me grin.  

Angelina shares some of them with potential agents since agents need to find the culture they want to be apart of within a brokerage (plus, she doesn't accept everyone if they don't fit, grin).Of course, it really just depends on what you are trying to do as a regular brokerage may have what you need.

The best thing to do in situations like this is to simply grin and bear it.

"Depending on the municipality, @J Beard 's advice about PINs (APNs in his text)"The entire state  of California uses APNs consistently :grin:"An assessor's parcel number, or APN, is a number assigned to parcels of real property by the tax assessor"see the wiki

After you form your opinion, you can then see what the valuation is just for grins.

Even if they don't do it on the investment property, I'll give them a holler if I can ever get the real boss (insert wicked grin here) to go along with tapping the home for investments. 

(grin)  I have several clients looking for RV & mobile home parks in Idaho so if you get serious about selling, let me know! 

@Kevin GerbieHey Kevin, most suburbs of Grand Rapids have good schools:RockfordCaledoniaJenisonGrandvilleHudsonvilleAda/CascadeWyoming KentwoodComstock ParkEast GRIn GR there are several great neighborhoods for investing with high rents and high appreciation:Around Wealthy St, Medical Mile, Bridge St, cherry st.Also around the GVSU downtown campus is great for rentals

(*grins)