Unless I can put 'boots on the ground', I'm afraid I'm bordering on speculating...But I come back to the fact that some of these houses --good, solid houses-- are practically being given away on the REO side...

Become a student of design or be ready to pay someone out the yin-yang to do it for you.A hot date for me and my wife is going to Borders, buying a cup of coffee, and reading every home/building/renovating journal on the shelf.

The agendas of Rupert Murdock and other media moguls are always trying to distract the American people from the ugly truth of what is really going on in the real world outside of U.S. borders.

I live right on the border of Massachusetts in Salem NH.

I agree with @Troy Sheets in terms of the location, the hard border for Brewerytown is normally Cecil B.

I have a deal pending - multi-family house in Union City, bordering Jersey City.

If I were a betting man, I would point the area south of USC - west of the 110 freeway.The boundaries would be JEFFERSON BLVD to the north, SLAUSON to the south and stretching westward all the way to BALDWIN HILLS and ending at La Cienega on the western border of this rectangle of speculation.I've personally seen "in love" yuppies taking a sunday morning stroll at Central and MLK blvd.

@Dan Salim I would highly advise you to get some advice from a cross border tax specialist (accountant/lawyer), if you haven't already done so in setting up your LLC, as you could potentially face unfavorable tax treatment when repatriating the income back to Canada.  

How about towns that border it, Woodland Park, Pasaaic, Elmwood Park, Wayne, Haledon, Prospect Park?

Correction - you absolutely CAN do 1031 across state lines.Per: http://www.1031exchange.com/faq/Exchanging property across state borders is a very common thing for investors to do.