Next time you think to focus on how "hood" one of these neighborhoods is, consider that the likelihood for criminals to be your neighbors in A-class areas is ever increasing, what with the sharp increase in cybercrime, Medicaid fraud, tax-evasion, and other white-collar offenses that seem to be the stock and trade of too many "elite" professionals nowadays.

Also because of my passion, and also because flips are really hard to find nowadays that have a good margin of more than 10% profit from the selling price.I started to do some digging in the main market that I am operating at right now and found a nice option that I liked:Find an old house in a good area in the city metro, demolish and build a new one on top of it a medium to high-end home.Why?

And they even make prefab Island slabs nowadays standard sized like 5 ft x 3 ft, but still cheap....

It is expensive but money is not cheap at all nowadays and as others mentioned even getting a LOC against a rental property is a huge score as not many lenders are lending on that product.Question I have is what are you using the $ for and can you earn it back? 

As it seems to be the only way to make it in this world nowadays.

Note buyers and partial buyers are very hard to come by nowadays.

Also keep in mind that most loans are DCR constrained nowadays.

Nowadays, we're all experts in everything, thanks to YouTube and Google.

Where are your B+ areas nowadays @Matthew Irish-Jones ?

QUESTIONABLE- Best Buy over $1,000 (maintenance visit soon after noticed two new TVs and Xbox consoles in kid's bedrooms) POOR CHOICE- Numerous purchases from online women's store selling wigs, "interesting clothing" & such (yes, we looked up the website) POOR CHOICE- Numerous cash withdraws of $400-$500 at Detroit casinos.