But at the same time i feel its vital to constantly re-evaluate and retool to find what works the best.

Just like marriage, great communication and understanding is vital.

If the bad area is convenient to expressways, public transportation, and vital services and adjoins a much nicer area, the prospects for improvement sooner rather than later are much better.

We are not even close to the bottom due to the fact....the average income per capita has fallen (and commodity inflation) and the credit markets show no signs of any recovery which is extremely vital to the housing recovery.

At one time, for every dollar out there, there was gold behind it (kind of like a mortgage has a home as collateral behind it,) till Nixon took us off the gold standard.

But jeez you are sitting on a small gold mine if windmills and similar come back to those factories.

Watch this company called Santa Fe gold.

Realtors lie to sellers and will have there house on the market for hundreds of days because they told them they have gold but no one says anything about that on BiggerPockets...pay attention. 

I'd be burning through pencils writing purchase offers and making sure that none of you ever found out about my gold mine. lol.

Gold flees those that invest in ventures they have no skill in.