We just haven't gone to war, had an earthquake, a nuclear disaster, a 'fat finger', banks gone wild, etc, for the last couple years so its been rosy.  

Background: The Neighborhood Best Practices 2016 Action Plan presents numerous recommendations to enhance neighborhood quality of life with particular emphasis on code enforcement activities.

BP has numerous guides and sticky's you can get started on.

The concern with Newark that seems to be sharing is that the "bad" neighborhoods are dangerous, "war zones" as they're called. 

I copy/pasted his email, I think he was an ivy league undergrad and school of hard knocks post grad.Obviously I am stupid; at the beginning we discussed commission numerous times so I thought he had integrity, whoops!

I am looking for individuals willing to partner with to rehab and flip or rent properties in so called "War Zones" in Broward County, Florida

There are numerous BP podcasts where successful investors discuss exactly how they do that.Good luck,Cynthia

@Alec Sithong, Your desire to kick start your war chest is great.  

Longer term (being 24-48 months) Im looking to move to medium sized rental communities - 100-200 units to build longer term wealth.I am in a position to buy cash, prefer to work the suburbs and stay out of the war-zone (aka center-city Allentown).

I've done numerous vertical enlargements of 4 story buildings as well as horizontal extensions but no full on ground up projects.