If you need a bandwagon closer to home, go to the local interstate, and find a billboard advertising an agent or REI.

For exit strategy, I would just try to run/estimate the numbers on several options (wholesale, whole-tail, fix and flip, BRRRR) and then choose whichever one gets you closer to your RealEstate/Financial goals.

Another house I'm fixing up had a stack of old tires in the back yard buried in tall grass.

It keeps the property looking good and tenants are just like anybody else:  Nobody wants to mow grass on the weekend, especially if it isn't your grass.  

a couple of take aways for those reading this.there is NO private money less than about 9% apr and that's for the absolute best and most experienced.. if your starting out it will be above 10 and probably closer to 12%  short term fix and flip product.you can get rates from a legit mortgage broker bank or other Licensed lender and those rates right now for non owner are about 5.5 to 6... private long term mortgages through bigger HML are at 7 to 10.. 

Look forward to practicing on a few properties and hopefully come across a good deal along the way and be one step closer to closing on my first property.

Thus it's market value is obviously closer to what you paid than the assessment.

I was surprised mainly that more pockets closer to downtown were not selected, especially given recent data available on prospects for children growing up in poor areas to 'ascend' out of poverty...https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/upshot/maps-neighborhoods-shape-child-poverty.html?

@Cat R. buy one of those police Stinger devices - you know, the spikes they throw across the rob to stop a perp dead in his tracks - then hide it in the grass across the path of where she drives. 

I'm also concerned the closer to C the neighborhood is, the more this "utility abuse" will occur.I just discussed this with @Ryan Murdock.