Example looking at an area map looking down at an aerial the immediate vicinity property is the parcels to the left,right,across the street zoned residential or office??

Then, call the listing agent and say something like, "hey Betty, I see you have a listing on Maple Street".

Comparable homes (not updated/remodeled) on the same street are selling for around $65k-$80k, with one (that is updated/remodeled) just going into escrow for around $137k.

Its not as if anyone could come in off the street and claim to be part of my LLC and take money out of the bank.

You live in Sioux Falls South Dakota, and I even know on which street!

I'm also thinking that a street patrol would help as well in some of these neighborhoods and MAYBE I could get some of the neighborhoods to chip in on the service so that particular street could have 24/7 patrol- Or creating the service myself eventually to monitor all of my properties in the Detroit area.

Jon Holdman They have eyeballs of the properties too via satellite, but only eyeballs looking downward with no close up street view.

Additionally, there is business and profit potential to the street level investor as well being more efficient in the disposition of the asset.

Curious Fact: The same broker (who has also been sued 17 other times) is currently being sued in a neighboring county, by a law firm right across the street (literally) from my atty.

In any other case, even if you invest in your own street, you'll need to hire others to do at least some of the work for you, and you probably wouldn't want the tenants to know that you live just around the corner too, unless they're perfect tenants, but these, like snow-white, only exist in fairy-tales.