Neighborhood is a blue collar C area.

Just wanting to learn from you all about investing, possibly might have some ideas for rentals if i can learn more in a nearby city. 

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Our neighborhood has up to 38K down payment assistance programs, so, he had time to prepare for that.

The property is comprised of four 2b/1ba units in the South Dallas-Fair Park neighborhood and is right across the street from a large industrial plant.

Brian - check out the Hub City REIA up there in Hagerstown.  

Unsafe" is probably language that local C/E uses to refer to Health and Safety Code laws as they relate to their ability to withdraw a Certificate of Occipancy.As you may already know, I've spoken at our state's annual code enforcement conference and follow multiple cities fairly closely.

So that means while everyone else is popping a top and sitting down to watch football on the sixth day, you need to be working your area and knocking on doors because everyone’s at home- including sellers.That makes the commanded sixth work day the best day to work your neighborhoods, meet with sellers and be looking for deals.What you do on that sixth day will greatly influence your success.Point three: take a day off every week.

Also, call all the "We Buy Houses" signs in your target neighborhoods.  

I buy a lot of properties in Metro Detroit and I've seen deals like that but those are in neighborhoods that I feel like I should be suiting up in full combat gear before I get out of my car.Realistically in C+ neighborhoods you should be getting a Net ROI of around 12% possibly lower and possibly higher depending on mistakes that are made and what kind of luck you have.