Home prices are going up around here but there are still plenty of blue collar/working class neighborhoods.

Im trading 2 condos on a golf course ($185K equity) for 4 blue collar homes; heres why;$445 HOA means im converting -$55 cash flow on 300K condo balues for $860 cash flow on 560K value of the 4.

So, I know everyone has seen the Blue dots all over Zillow when you are looking at properties.

That is if you thought this area was a good Blue Collar C or B class area by what the agent told you.Swanny

It was promised to take 3 months to rehab, longer than Podcasting, but anyway.We were introduced to a property management company named Blue Sky opened by Clayton Morris and they took more than two months to send us the management agreement by the excuse of system issue, which delay us from realizing the problem.

@Larry Moore Jan and Larry Jordan run a meetup group in Blue Springs - they have a meeting Thursday Night - I think that is covering tax sales in Jackson County - their last email to me said that the list will be available Friday and you have to get it from a legal publication like the Daily Record or the Pulse Legal - these can get you probably the lists in Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass - and maybe St Louis - just note that St Louis County and Jackson County do not sell tax liens, but sell properties after 4 years of non-payment so their sales differ.Look for the Blue Springs Real Estate Investment Group on Meetup to get more info about this event to learn how Jackson County tax sales work.

I rent a small property in the Blue Ridge mountains, works out wonderfully.

In those years, I had tenants doing an adequate job, to ones where they don't get to mow till it's over 6 to 8 inches long and neighbors complain and threaten to call the town.I found tenants who take their mowing seriously are blue collar family types.

@Alex PresnellYou can go blue in the face and people on the outside of it never really get the benefits of the small landlord exception, especially for handyman investors.

Wayne, Westland, Livonia, and Redford are all blue-collar cities that are accessible to Detroit.