Sounds like your territory is more in the burbs, and commuting here can be a PITA, so your best bet is to come here and get the lay of the land and then decide on where you want to live.  

Interesting article about Google dealing with housing for employees. I work for a large company that decided to buy a hotel in our corporate town for people coming in for training. After a few years realized a lot ch...

I think the best bet would be to speak to your attorney about the best way to proceed.

I think for a few hundred dollars your best bet might be to get a roof rack in case you need to haul stuff or a small trailer and buy a hitch for the car. 

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but if there are drug dealers there, it's a good bet that they're gang affiliates.That's a conflict that's most likely not worth having - especially considering the risk to reward ratio.No deal is worth getting killed over.

If you really believe they will purchase the property.....a long shot at best I'm betting, then have a real estate attorney draw up a lease/purchase agreement stipulating things in writing up front.

The people who buy multis know how to evaluate, negotiate, and put under contract, so you'd have to be very very good to get a deal for them with margin in it for you.... probably not the best thing to bet on without more experience.Oh, and that deal I lost money on?  

Adwords would be a better bet, since the market identifies themselves by the search intent of the query.

(All bets are off during this supply chain issue and massive inflation situation.).

[ $995 * 12 / 5.059322% = $236k ] I bet when you posted the $995, it actually had some pennies on the end, like $995.13, and the interest rate is a rounder number like 5.06% & not 5.059322...%.Need to see the actual mortgage statement to really do any more number crunching.