I highly encourage you to connect with your local investing community through BP and offline.  

Comparing the information, you're around a -2% population growth, -0.22% job growth and a home vacancy of 10%.http://www.city-data.com/city/Plymouth-Michigan.ht...http://www.semcog.org/data-and-maps/community-prof...http://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/michigan/pl...Now, even though Plymouth looks to be fairly stagnant, I'm assuming you know the surrounding areas and can see if people who live there commute elsewhere to jobs and if land surrounding or within the city limits can even be developed for potential housing or business growth. 

We are in the midst of our lease up on our 2nd phase of our apartment community in upstate NY. 

With it being later in the year, I didn't have as many applicants as I liked, and ended up dropping the rent to $825, but increased the length so that they end in springtime.  

Now, he is promoting dishonesty and has now shown to the entire BP community his true self.

I've also developed a list for spouses and/or inheriting parties of a homeowner who recently passed.I'm currently building a process of partnering with assisted living communities and nursing homes to join on their marketing campaign.  

I believe they meet the 2nd Monday every month at The Woodlands community center close to the Pavillion.

Even if you already have a realtor that you are working with, I find it is always helpful to meet up with new folks and get plugged into the local REI community.

I just had a property turn over and followed this procedure for the showings:I advertise the property and handle all calls, emails, texts on it and set up viewing appointments (I group them all within 30-45 minutes on one day)The current tenants show the property to prospective rentersWhen someone applies, they email or fax in the application and pay the application fee via PayPal (although I am now trying out Cozy for applications) and I process the applicationIf the application passes, I prepare and email over the lease for signatureWhen the lease is signed and sent back to me, I send over a payment request for the first month's rent (via Dwolla or Cozy)At the check-in, I drive to the property to check them in myself and collect the security deposit in secured funds (or use Cozy to collect it beforehand)I have been doing the above for a long time and it has worked pretty well.

The other one that fell through had a judgement filed against the homeowner right after we did the quit claim with the mortgagor and were about to close and redeem the property from the person that bought it at the sheriff sale.That judgement terminated the mortgagor's (and therefore our) ability to redeem that property.The response rate on our marketing campaigns has been extremely low; south of 1%, in fact.Our campaigns include door knocking, leaving notes on doors, as well as mailing the property and new addresses of the owners (when applicable).