Statistics about Milwaukee are often wrong or let's call it misguided. 

NEVER get the (gottas - I'm so tired of making offers that I gotta get a deal) Be patient and your first deal will be a good one. 4) If you hire a property manager remember the buck stops with you - so inspect what you expect.Best of luck to you Kevin, let me know if you want to chat sometime.

I think I paid $30 bucks for it and never updated quicken to a paid subscription as I don't need any of those annual fee features. 

I currently own two single family properties in Milwaukee.

For us it was only a couple hundred bucks more and it protects against mechanics liens (plus many other title defects). 

There's so much important info you can learn about neighborhoods (and individual properties) that simply cannot be conveyed by peoples' opinions, photos, or even video.As with all parts of due diligence: although you can (and should) seek the input of experienced pros, at the end of the day, the due diligence buck stops with you.Good luck out there!

Here is the backstory: I started buying single-family homes in Milwaukee 15 years ago and pretty soon migrated from C into B neighborhoods ("A" would be 500k plus here) and some of my friends invest in larger MF so I thought that's the next step for me as well and started shopping for a commercial deal maybe about 50 units.The issue is that I did not want to go into the affordable housing space and assets in the quality I liked were so insanely high priced that I would have needed 40% down to meet DSCR guidelines - not to mention rehab cost to bring it up to our standards.

Midwestern secondary/tertiary markets can be great places to look for "value investors" or to get more bang for your buck. 

. , trust me, if you fly the way all the way from California to Raleigh, North Carolina, , the broker in Raleigh is probably going to consider you a serious buyer since you just spent, you know, a couple thousand bucks and, you know, three, four days to get there.

Currently living in Madison but looking to invest in the Milwaukee area as prices aren't as crazy it seems.