I'd suggest you look into joining the local AZ RE Group (AZREIA.com) which is about $20 per month and has a lot of developers who can grease the skids for you and give you some local contacts. 

My recommendation is to start with your local REIA or look for some RE groups on meetup.com

Might regroup the attitude and you might improve that 9+% vote to post ratio.

I look forward to reading your update after you've fully researched the facts and have regrouped.

I have been to a few RE groups/meetups, and sometime conversation can get sideways and upside-down.

I hope the summits go well this weekend, unfortunately, I'm going to have to stick to my local RE group to network for the time being.

Join as many local RE groups as possible.

Join a local RE group so you can have more in depth discussions. 

Investing in bad area is losing strategy for you, sell cut your losses, regroup, if I was you I would look into something like buying a 4plex in the neighborhood you would feel good living in yourself and house hacking it.

My advice is connect with local RE groups/meetup events where you will meet investors, agents, brokers, etc. and shop it out there.