Tonight our small investor group will start an open ended conversation about how to go about making an existing older neighborhood in our community into trendy and popular neighborhood with more of an urban identity.

There's an agent here who {over} uses the phrase "awaiting your decorating touches", which translates into "the shag carpet may be gone, but the appliances are still harvest gold and nothing else has been touched since 1978".  

Then as you go down the food chain, I'm seeing 6-8 in the less trendy areas.

It is true the area hasn't seen much development on the commercial/retail side BUT I think in the next few years more trendy spots will come closer to campus.

We are beginning to see inflation in those countries, so I think that trend is closer to ending than it is to beginning. 

I don't need to live in a prestigious neighborhood in a "hot market" and go to trendy clubs just to make it rain $1,000 bottles of champagne.Who am I trying to impress, after all? 

By Googling a few phrases on the website, it took just a couple of minutes to determine it's almost an exact copy of 365 Home Lending.

I think you will have difficulty finding a duplex for $360K that will rent out at 1,900/side.In mid 2016 we sold a duplex for $377.5K in a very trendy part of Dallas (Live Oak and Skillman, near Lowest Greenville), the Property taxes were $6,023/year, and the rents were a tad under $1,400/side. 

In my mind a plex is either lower end housing, student housing, or "trendy neighboorhood" inner city housing (Houston's Montrose area).

@Emily RefiWe don't have enough details about your plans, but your phrase "...SD IRA to use for part of a down payment and rehab" is alarming.