The drawback is the freeway proximity and some gang crime in adjacent areas.

My friend gets it installed and heads off to the airport (I flew him out from Seattle and paid him hourly since I’m still building my list of reliable contractors).

For our ARV we used townhouses in the adjacent developments that are slightly more modern, but priced below those.All of the buyers realtors are looking at the previous sales in our development as comps, and saying we are over priced.  

Additionally, this property is close to the airport so there is a lot of potential to turn it into an airbnb hub, leading to more cashflow and of course, more management/cleaning time.Long story short, would you take a deal with these parameters:- Asking price $165,000 (pre-MLS price) - Duplex consists of: 1 bedroom main floor and basement unit & 1 bedroom upstairs unit- Total rent: $1600/month (tenants pay utilities)Addendum: I just bought my first property with 11% down (before I found BP), so any suggestions (or links to forum posts/blog posts/podcasts) on creative ways to finance this deal, please let me know.Thanks BP community.

I knew my target market was the University of Maryland Medical Center as I observed people in scrubs wandering their way to the block adjacent to the block where I bought.

Learn what it’s like to manage a property, get a sense of the maintenance cadence, dealing with tenants, marketing a vacancy, etc. before jumping into a $14K warzone (or warzone adjacent) property.  

Any neighborhood with an elementary or middle school in or adjacent is almost guaranteed to rent out quickly.

Drove up from Detroit with my wife, I was working in Cleveland at the time and pick wife up at DTW airport.   

Key point, don't buy properties with major negatives like no garage, on busy streets, that back up to railroad tracks, in airport flight paths, etc.

If you do decide to look in Cleveland proper, I'd look at the areas directly adjacent to Euclid (called N.