The quad plex is right next to the police station and within walking distance to two universities.

I have a couple of spots in my lease stating if they get in trouble with neighbors or local police they are subject to eviction.2.)

Make sure she understands if he moves in you will evict and offer to release her from the lease.Your problem is you have absolutely no way of policing the situation or proving conclusively he is there.

You need to be aware of what you're buying seeing it in person.I think you can make some decent money in Detroit because it's becoming revitalized, but you will likely be looking at more of a cash flow play than an appreciation play.The best investors in Detroit are the ones who have the ability to buy into the area because they have the influence to change the area.Dan Gilbert has invested in Detroit, and it's smart for him to do it, because he's literally buying blocks of downtown area, and actually buying his own security force (basically to double a police force) to monitor and control the crime in the areas he buys.If you are just buying one house in an area, you better go check it out.  

Hi Omi - Among the reasons this may occur are that the property has a lot of deferred maintenance and is not polished enough to sell easily on the MLS and the owner lacks time, money, or both, to get it ready to sell.

Next month's meetup will be on FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS, DC Employees, Police Officers and Firemen ...

If the lean is registered after Close and you learn of it at that time, it may be covered (read the police or ask the attorney / title company who is selling the policy).

If so for both, polish up your calculations and scope of work and head over to a local bank or credit union and talk with a loan officer is one option if you're able to fit the loan closing wait time into your timeline to close in your contract.Otherwise you could look into private money and then refinancing out of it (i.e.

Within 3 days we had the property under contract and I'm thinking, "I'm going to really have to find a way to polish this turd to sell it."

One strategy that I do since I'm an out of town investor is to call the local police department to pull the police reports for the last 6 months.