The mid-level, blue-collar neighborhoods are pretty stable.

He's a realtor and a little on the sketchy side.So the lender reached out for info they need for the refi, and he reached out to my wife, out of the blue and told her he knew of a cash buyer that wanted to buy her condo for 10K more than the appraised value.

Does it really take trained salespeople to warm up and negotiate these leads or should we just send a piece of mail, email or call them out of the blue and shock the heck out of 'em?

Once in a blue moon we do actually get a scenario where I tell someone to put down (for example) 5% plus $726, or 25% plus $4,333, or something wonky like that, just to get that loan amount to exactly $484,350.

It was a market abnormality that seemed ripe for the taking, since Cleveland's economy was showing really strong signs of promise (particularly in healthcare), rising rents, and stability overall (the blue collar exodus that spanned a few decades finally seemed to have subsided). 

FYI the icons in blue are for sale, red is foreclosure and yours is in yellow.

But of course someone needs to be close by for those once in a blue moon emergencies and the city actually requires you to be in the county when someone is staying at the rental.  

The steady job growth has come from high paying tech jobs, not blue collar or retail jobs.

Mine is the yellow and his is the blue.

We loved the location and because the duplex was not destroyed either time, its location improved because most units needed to be re-built further from the ocean.