@Jared Carpenter I'm not saying deals can't be found you'll just have to dig deeper to find them and have more capital to afford them than you would in other markets.

Keep digging into the numbers, and be conservative on your estimate, make sure you cover everything.

Besides, she can dig in to MLS details that aren't available on sites like Zillow.

Looking to start picking up some properties in the metro Detroit area (Macomb county for now), bought the book, discovered the forum and started digging through this treasure trove of information.Being not just out of state but out of country I'm looking for a good on the ground team especially a property manager, so if anyone has recommendations I'd love to hear it! 

After that a DIG membership is required.Austin 

On the streets you may not dig that deep into contract law, but the courts will.

not to dig up 3 week thread...but @rick bassett...must you use an attorney if your business is structured as an LLC? 

Subdividing is defiantly something I had thought about, but don't know the first thing about (Guess I'll dig and find out more).

If you dig hard enough you can find just about anything.

In my opinion you need more of a creative real estate education on Power Prospecting - Contract Engineering - Negotiating - Creative Financing - Making offers - dealing with off market properties - Hybrid offers - Public Auctions and creating credit lines and cash partnerships - to mention a few disciplines .Baltimore is a small town - but there are a ton of deals that can be found when you go under-ground to dig them up -I would be glad to give you some referrals if still think you need an agent to represent you.