It's booming here.  

My parents own two mixed use buildings in a rough part of Brooklyn and I have watched them really enjoy the fruits of the boom in property prices in the area.

Frisco is the second fastest growing city in the US right now and it is booming and the prices have really gone up.  

RE Profits: Real estate provide you 4 way benefits...Appreciation + Depreciation + Cash Flow + Amortization. if you sell, you are taking appreciation advantage and other there will stop... better to have all four...If you don't like to invest more in this hot market, you can let properties pay off and use cash flow from this properties to buy more in next boom.

(back on topic)so im on google maps "driving around" and i can see the abandoned houses and ones that look vacant, i zoom in to get the address of these properties and again search the owners and boom, its usually someone in a different state or part of town, and boom.

Some areas you can concentrate your efforts in are 1) Ruskin - New amazon warehouse employing several hundreds of people here2) Lithia / Fishhawk area - Great schools but beware of high CDD + HOA + Property taxes that'll eat into your COC return3) Winter Garden - Booming market in orange county, has a new hospital and several new business coming up.  

Hi Joshua,I would like to invite you to the next BP event in Portland, more info here.On October 11th people will be meeting on the outside covered (and heated) patio at Fire on the Mountain at 3443 NE 57th Ave, Portland 97213 to discuss real estate topics and the booming Portland market.Hope to see you there!

Only the most desperate renters would probably agree to live there so the price of the property would have to be dirt cheap and cost you as little money as possible in the rehab to make it worth the effort.Your gambling that the surrounding area will be gentrified in the next few years and increase the property values.If this was in Southern California I would say yes absolutely but,the ATL may be a little harder to wait for unless the population booms there in the next 5 years.

Here is an article from the most recent Indianapolis Business Journal on the developments in the Herron-Morton neighborhood.Downtown Boom Hits Herron-Morton

The housing is booming here KC , any thing that looks close to right priced right goes quick with multiply offers.http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2016/04...