I found driving the areas I'm interested in at different times of the day and observing the people, home conditions and businesses has helped me tremendously in making decisions on where to invest.

Irvington has not and will not because there are too many distressed areas and it's not big like Newark to be able to withstand the amount of distressed versus a market level.You will always have people wanting to get out from any area, you can't take that as a sign what the area is,  and yes Irvington isn't an upper class area and you might have some people not wanting to deal with it, but for any investor that can handle anything more than just sitting comfortable in office and just taking out rent checks from your mail box, if you gave a good deal there Grab it, screen your tenants be patient and you'll make beautiful money.that brings me to the other point it is hard to find a good deal these days even in Irvington THE PRICES HAVE IN FACT GONE UP TREMENDOUSLY Over the past 3 years just like the other cities. check the history online you'll be shocked on the gtowth Irington had  just in the past few years 

Selling a home is a tremendous financial decision and you don’t want to be deceived. 

Buyers in the fact their monthly mortgage will go up tremendously, but also sellers for those who want to trade up, don't want to because they become a buyer in this market.

I strongly suggest to not delay the work. on another note, if this is your first flip in Detroit, I strongly suggest you find something off market as opposed to a LB home, those require a tremendous amount of work, and can be overwhelming. 

However, I am positive that by going through the home buying process before taking the exams helped me tremendously with real world knowledge and not just book examples. 

I’m president of our local Real Estate Investors Association, Freedom First.Getting in the same physical room with people is going to help tremendously!

People have found tremendous success using this tactic but for me personally I will receive far greater returns attending networking events/ face to face.

BP has helped me tremendously.

Furthermore, the applications for marketing are tremendous.