How close are you to the state border?

Are you willing to to gamble your money and maybe lose?

@Harry Gamble I think it's desirable because it's a duplex lot, but the 9 sides parcel that sits back from the road is a very, very odd lot.

When you speculate you are essentially gambling.

Being that I live in CT, but am just a few minutes from the Mass border, do you think I should be focusing on one state over the other? 

Assuming that you are not a general contractor by trade, you can either gamble big money that a house is ok, or you can accept that you will lose an occasional deal to some maniac who doesn't want to do an inspection. 

Fun :)Dealt with it with rentals in Matteson and Cal City recently and it's such a slowdown to our business that we just pulled right out of Chicago for rentals & only do them over the border on the Indiana side. 

Turns out one was a computer gambling business and the other was an e-cig business.I don't care why the applicant doesn't want to tell you, but if I don't know the business, I don't consider the application. 

on a mobile home near the Johnston county border that you could smell from 200 feet away.

if down the line the condo market in this area picked up".That sounds like a big gamble, right there.