The best areas are larger cities that are diverse economy and have increasing population and increasing jobs available. 

A question..... best asked with a scenario:I own 3 properties(1 commercial, 1 multifamily and 1 single family home) all properties are rented with a nice cash flow.

I have one rental, which cash flows nicely but it due to an awesome location. 

If you sold and invested in a nice income fund you could probably achieve a 10% return on average.Dead equity does nothing except buy very expensive cash flow and is really only hoarding of useless cash.

Hey  I found a motivated seller fsbo thats also a investor she really is nice and I have gained her trust and don't want to lose it, i told her my wife and myself is interested in purchasing her home, although i have not told her that we are investors as well and we are doing it virtually for the most part, moving forward to get this property under contract do i mentioned we are investors or where do I go from here.   

I think that's what all dream about secretly - buy a delapitaed building in a bad area, but after they built the new shopping mall, highway etc it all turnes around and now we own a property in a really nice part of town.

A nice area located in Kalamazoo county.

You should get a nice cash flow if you are able to get any new home/FHA/VA financing.

Hi Paisley,Nice to meet you.We are looking for multiple family buildings that have some room for improvement.

Tomorrow morning since the cc is used with Navy Federal I'm going to see if they can offer me a HELOC since the rental property is purchased in my name and it has no mortgage,100% equity.That's a nice little house for Detroit.