If you're looking for where the path of progress is and you want to get in cheap and make a killing in the long run similar to Austin, Portland or Denver I'm not sure Milwaukee is built for those levels of appreciation driven primarily my rapid population growth.

Adam Petterson Point well taken, I've been reading some threads about issues with cosmetic-driven flipping.

If an area has few recent sales at all because the vast majority of properties are rentals, then the appraiser will have to look at sales outside the area and make adjustments, or come up with a value based on rental revenues and expenses and a market-driven cap rate.

They came back in and the wife said they will accept the low check amount because they don’t want me to have driven all the way from Chicago for nothing.

Our car was smashed up and theirs was able to be driven with no airbags deployed.

Much of that activity was driven by the oil boom.

But maybe that's just wishful thinking.We have driven and looked at 11 of his rent houses.

I'd guess that the immediate shortage of housing after the floods has driven prices up, and probably temporarily.  

Give tenant that's leaving a I received your vacating notice and am informing you that the security deposit will be retained on the unit and have no further claim to that, have him sign that and all should be properly done. 

They are usually iron pipes driven into the ground, if they are there at all.