While a street MBA is incredibly valuable, I think the ability to experiment within the confines of an academic institution as well as the ideas that you are exposed to really shifts your perspective.

This property you're describing is just up the street of one that I manage.

All year round there would be a line outside 31st street for a soup kitchen.

So when you driving down the street keep an eye open for the small for sale signs.  

I went around yesterday and collected about 12 real estate flyers on about 5 streets.

the landlord boarded up the door and the street facing windows.

@Bryan BlanckeHit the streets dude!

In other words, they know that there really is a house at 104 Oak Street, and that there really is a house next door at 108 Oak Street, but that there is no house at 106 Oak Street. 

Does it back to a major street?

The growth of the area was not well-thought-out so you have streets that are single-family ranches that suddenly change into attached homes and suddenly change into attached homes with rear service garages.