I have four family friends that invested in the Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge and Scottsdale.

Jonesboro stuck me as a solid blue collar town, but not a war zone.Thanks again.

We're selling a home in Chicago and reached a dead end. Here's the situation: 
We sold a home to a very motivated buyer who waived an inspection and was willing to put down a substantial amount of money. The buyer ag...

Is it deal flow, financing, winter blues, or something else.Best of luck and get back to crushing it! 

.* The Naval Academy's graduation week and related celebrations such as the Blue Angels air show, known as Commissioning week, at the end of May;* Boat show weeks - did you know there are two major boat shows in the Fall every year?

Don't analyze until you're blue in the face, thinking it's going to make life easy.

I usually don’t point this out, but the dark blue line, homes under $164,000 or less, is kinda all over the place because this includes homes with significant issues, such as foundation problems, for them to be so low in a market where the median price is $315,000.

But if you said these were 100+ year old historic homes in the snow belt or on the ocean I would say the 10% is probably low. 

I am also concerned that the blue collar workforce of those areas could be in trouble with job losses (especially with airline workers), which could ultimately lead to foreclosures and value depreciation. 

I have been talking to realtors and they suggest areas between the "bad" and the "good" contain blue-collar tenants.