I read Multifamily Millions by David Lindahl, I went to Lifestyles Unlimited two day workshop in Houston, I read Loopholes of RE by Garrett Sutton, and I started 1031 exchanging my pricey San Diego single family (10 condos with HOA fees that were clearly out of my control) for a 10 unit in Cleveland Heights, 8 unit in Shaker Heights, 12 unit in Euclid, 12 unit in Painesville, 15 unit in Painesville, 21 unit in Painesville.  

By 2004, I had $100k saved up, and bought a SFH in Phoenix for $400k because "I could not afford Bay Area"...Comes 2007, bought first SF condo for $635k, 2/2 in PAC Height...2008, another 2/2 in Russian Hill, 2009 another 2/2 in Noe.....All 3 on short sale or foreclosure....

Before the last crash I was really eager to buy something, but I'm really glad I couldn't afford prices in 2006,2007 as that was the height of the market.

I've seen a lot of TK activity by the new Cerner Campus and in the Ruskin heights area.

I really like the South Hampton and Princeton Heights neighborhoods but they're already getting kind of expensive! 

I work mainly in Royal Oak, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Rochester Hills, as well as Ferndale, Berkley, Clawson, Madison Heights, Sterling Heights, Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Shelby, Utica, and Warren.

Then a good carpenter friend of mine cut a board to size (somehow ripping it to make it the same height as the other flooring using only my circular saw!)

Shaker Heights - just joined - still working on getting started!

Also, you have to have to be careful of what people call fountain square or emerson heights and other areas.

:)  The better public schools are in the Northeast Heights.