@Vincent Plant Keep marketing the property until you find an applicant you feel comfortable with and meets your criteria.

The contamination came from a old smelting plant.

Outside looks like a prison, add a couple cheap potted plants near the entry to give a little happiness and pride.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest

I was wondering if they had "plants" in the audience from the lender itself to make sure the house did not go for the starting bid...

But just grow pot plants in it.

You also want to avoid areas that are slipping down into ghettos or that have some sort of long range government plans that are going to hurt values.Don't buy were the city is placing a sewer plant 5 years from now.I recommend areas that have something desirable about them: good weather, growing populations, close to water or outdoor sports activities.

Someone has bought the GM plant in Janesville and it is only an hour or so to Racine where Foxconn is going in.  

@Michael Plante - This is a buy and hold play, so we are hoping the value down the road doubles or triples in value as has happened in other areas around Louisville in the past.

@Michael Plante yes that's right....go on YouTube and look up wholesaling real estate and "assigning contracts" it might change your life