It's your chance to move on to greener pastures, without more serious ramifications."

The greener areas mean that the area has more cities that produce average rent to price ratios that are in the top half of cities for that metric. 

Most every bank on the planet, if you ask them if they can get you a mortgage on an investment property, will tell you yes, absolutely.

@Roland Jerez and @Tony Hightower, Milwaukee is a great market and I am very grateful that life dropped me off here (for so many reasons outside of real estate as well), but remember the grass always looks greener on the other side..

If the seller is upside down or in the red on their cash flow they might not make these improvements.Then the anchor might leave to go elsewhere.People like newness and convenience.If you don't keep your center fresh and updated the traffic flows will start to reduce and tenants will look for greener pastures.Even if you have a full strip you have to think and plan for these things.Often with franchisees there are re-imaging clauses every so many years that cost a bunch of money.They should be putting away each year for this but instead find themselves in trouble when the new look should be rolling out.It's all about PLANNING.

California is a great place to invest, but like any other place on the planet you need to get your feet wet and take action if you plan to make any money.My experience has been whenever I listen to other people, to take it with a grain of salt because it just depends on who you talk to and for many rookie investors it seems they'll keep asking until they find someone who tells them what they want to hear.

According to my parents, I'm the cutest, smartest and most charming guy that's ever walked the planet.

Just need to see if the stars and planets get properly aligned so that I can get out of this mess!

As an Orange County, CA investor these deals sound like they are from another planet.

That might be the best private money lender on the planet.