Thanks so much for sharing your insight.PS- I have 2 viewings scheduled for late this week; one in Linden (2 units) and one in Bloomfield on the Montclair border (3 units). 

I haven't done foundation work, but figured it's worth the gamble on this property. 

Join the United States Border Patrol when you turn 18.

I gambled on the water restricting supply.

It is gambling.

.* Those attached SFRs with no HOA, the set of four homes all over the Richmond - El Cerrito border, that are model matches?

In the future if you have to change units, you will be limited only to the units that fit your hole in the wall, make the hole bigger for a different unit, or have an ugly retrofit border.

It is not to say section 8 is bad, it is just to big of a gamble for our system We have a very strict screening and placement policy, obviously all within the equal housing parameters.  

But predicting what part of the city will transition from high crime with large levels of abandoned houses to a great area to live is more of a gambling game.  

Here are 3 real estate related books that I just recently read that are specific to Canada (for all the BP'ers north of the border).