These census tracts must meet certain criteria in order to be eligible; primarily, they must be low-income communities.Being part of an Opportunity Zone provides a tax incentive for investors to reinvest unrealized capital gains into low-income urban and rural communities.

.  :-)  Unfortunately no cool moulding or door knobs or anything of much interest... just the original fir floorboards (*beautiful* tight grain) we'll do something neat with.Been working on this project for 20 months or so - it's an urban subdivision and new home construction.  

Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

The perfect blend of urban and country.

Really need to get about 500k down or more to get decent stuff in good areas.Now you could possibly invest in DST if accredited investor with 1031 money.Example there is weak rural, weak suburban, strong suburban, urban core areas.170k down gets nothing of value in the desirable areas that is passive NNN.

@Lucas Carl the urban progressives are never content unless inflicting their "progress" upon everyone, everywhere.

I am a relatively seasoned real estate professional with experience as a broker, property manager, investor, syndicator, attorney and urban planner...and I like to think I have at least a sense of the CA market from multiple perspectives.

You've paid your debt to society if you've served your time," wrote the bill's sponsor, Councilmember Lisa Herbold, in an August 11 blog post.

I am fine with quality rentals not so keen on what I have seen from the Morris/oceanpointe threads that's kind of scary for investors.and I always think urban core D class which shows highest paper returns are really appropriate for locals that live there and self manage or have enough of them 100 to 200 etc to have their own crews.

The nefarious connotation you imply simply isn't mainstream.I'm as big a critic of misused language as anyone, but in this case, I think your understanding of the term "hacking" is out of line with the rest of society's.