However, I worked as a property manager on a property in midtown Manhattan and am familiar with getting struggling properties performing. 

They are very flexible and have classes all over brooklyn queens Long Island and Manhattan.

@Ray Harrell Absolutely NOT (necessarily).if you pick a 1800's building in San Fransisco or Manhattan will it be a class D?

But this is a very tough area to make it work, right outside of Manhattan, with high prices and high taxes. 

I'm interested in properties in college towns such as Manhattan Kansas or Lincoln Nebraskan.

Second step is a (very costly) pain: publication requirement, which is north of $1000 to have done in New York County/Manhattan.

If someone wants 800 acres of land in the middle of Manhattan to frolic, let them save their money and buy it.

If she's in Manhattan KS with you, a $500K houses is probably something of a mansion.

Curious to know if anyone is looking to invest in manhattan real estate?

The ACCRA Cost of Living Index, an analysis by the Council for Community and Economic Research, found that Manhattan by far had the highest cost of living in the U.S., with a cost that’s more than twice the national average.