I am in the Long Island, NY area and there are tons of boarded up homes,  When I look into who owns them I am finding it's the bank and then ROAD BLOCK!

Wallboard was trashed, rugs needed to be replaced, lots of trash left. (2) A tenant used the ridge beam in the garage as a hoist to pull an engine block out of his car and cracked the beam.

I've read rental agreements that talk about keeping the property looking up to standards (ie no long grass, cars on cinder blocks, etc) but how would you keep somebody from flying a confederate flag?

Has us a bit spooked.deal #2 - 12 unit apartment with laundry on site priced at $300,000 (on market for 866 days) planning to offer lessafter figuring in expenses and 20% vacancy rate cap rate is at 9.29%These buildings are within blocks of each other. 

That is still a pretty rough block, as you are on the outer edges of point breeze (farthest away from the gentrifying areas).

But its the only vacant home on the block.

Philadelphia is VERY block by block.

With the huge surge of interest in real estate investing by new and experienced investors, the return of home buyers to market and the resulting rise in prices I was curious to see what the community thought were today’s underutilized strategies and areas (cities, towns, states even blocks) that could be interesting in the next 6 months and are not yet popular enough to be something most people know about and are thus using thereby driving up prices as well as reducing supply. 

I am new to real estate investing and I was in line to buy a 240,000 one bed one bath in the heart of Pacific Beach 10 blocks from the ocean.  

Show off that beautiful tile work you spent so much money on - plus with that block window, the light will fill the bathroom so much better, where a shower curtain would block that light more.