I have a friend who wanted to rent from me and I had to gently say no.

@Jeffrey Kingman on the ground level labor cost is going to limit the movement from offshore warehousing.

I was looking around the north side, but not having any luck places that would cash flow (without being very creative).I recently redid a data analysis looking at zip code level trends - basically areas that are likely to have 1% opportunities and also regions that are showing positive movement for population and rent growth.Here's a map (the color is population growth according to census data - yellow up to 9% and green above 9%). 

Ratios, cost per sf, equipment, who maintains what, market movements, zoning compliance, environmental impacts ... 

But I know they're only asking in such an overly gentle manner because they've had stuck up brats before (and seen plenty on social media) whining about how if they stayed at a Hilton they wouldn't have to "pay a cleaning fee and then clean the property myself", where apparently spending 10 seconds wheeling a trashcan 20 feet is "cleaning the whole property" themselves.Again, I'm just glad I have mostly larger (and some rural) properties where those kind of guests aren't frequent. 

At the same time, I will send comps from the neighborhood in the last year showing lower sale prices per square foot, and gently suggest that they have misunderstood the market at the neighborhood level.2.

The flexibility of the 1031 to go small to large, few to many to few, geography to geography and sector to sector give you the ultimate power to shape your portfolio to get the performance you want in the place and sector you want and never pay a penny in tax on the gain from the movement of those properties.

We've been noticing alot of movement and nice rentals/ flips in the Devington area. 

Also it might not be a bad idea to get qualified with Movement Mortgage.

I don't see much movement, but you probably want to put vertical braces on that wall and maybe epoxy the crack.