Here are a few things that I like about the neighborhoods in Indy compared to other states: high rent-to-home-value ratio, consistent and gradual city development, relatively low property tax and insurance cost, affordable renovation service cost.From my experience, it's possible to find deals that meet 1% rule if you invest in *turn-key* duplex or SFH here, but they are harder to find, and could potentially slow down you from scaling up.

If we do a Self Storage development we expect a 400% COC return.  

Or buy a Contractor display home in a new upcoming development.  

Over time, we have developed systems to handle these situations as effectively as possible.

As an investor here myself, I can tell you we're seeing solid rental demand here thanks to the strong job market and major employers developing here. 

That is just not realistic in this current market.So in my opinion it's important to expose yourself to a large number of deals, so you can develop an intuitive sense of what's reasonable and what's not (and quickly discard the ones that aren't).And it's true that there is no way to 100% protect from fraud (and not just in passive real estate investments but even in public stocks etc.).

There’s a lot of new development going on in Huntsville proper, but properties in nearby suburbs like Athens, Decatur, or Meridianville are both more affordable at present and less prone to competition from new construction.$150,000 can buy you a tenant-ready 3 bed, 2 bath single-family home in a B-grade neighborhood.

I am concentrated in the land development sector and multifamily.

I have a close associate with a large project there and the local banks have turned off the spick-et on funding his developments and these are very large multi thousand acre deals.

After a while you’ll develop a knack for figuring out who really knows what they are talking about and who is just full of it.Company Websites.