If you blindly invest then you will set yourself up to fail regardless of the crime rate.

I'm wheelchair bound and legally blind but I'm motivated to learn how to be a real estate investor!

More significantly, most are blind investments (if equity) so you don't really know what you are investing in.  

I pet proofed the house (i.e taking off the blinds and keeping the windows bare, tile or water resistant floors) since it's multi- ... fees or fines for unleashed dogs and poop found, pet insurance requirements for any fights or problems from pets, poop bag and trash station, signs of leasing and picking up after your pet posted.If you have garden, pregnant tenants, or walking/crawling kids, you might want to consider no cats because even just the fumes from their urine is more toxic and harmful.

when people call me and ask me to make an offer i ask what they think their house is worth and that i do not make blind offers. 

I wasnt exactly planing to just drive up to newark blindly and scan block by block... 

Does this sound like a solid plan, or am I blinded by the owner financed deal?

Because they have branding and name recognition and your blinded by dollar signs and influenced by the light shows, music, and voice inflections.

This is understood to mean that as long as the llc will be under the same name as the loan it's perfectly fine. he added that before the rule was changed people put properties in llc all the time anyway because as long as you were making payments fannie didnt care and turned a blind eye. 

Let them pick out blinds, paint color in kitchen, plant a tree or something that gives them some psychological ownership.Watch out for crappy property management in crappy areas as they tend to go hand in hand from what I hear.Thanks,Matt