This duplex is in a better area and a good neighborhood.

@Chris Weichselbaum I've met with http://www.mpghousing.com/ before and they are probably a perfect fit for your location/size.

., property values only appreciate if the real property is improved, AND the neighborhood improves AND the housing market is in good shape.

Knowing the type of property and tenant you’re looking for can narrow your search criteria to certain types neighborhoods.

Does anyone have a recommendation for private/government statistics which have rental vacancies rate broken down by county, town or even neighborhood?

Which sounds like a loophole fitting your objective, doesn't it?

Seems we're in the same neighborhood.

I see a lot of mentions of neighborhood grading.

My friend, Tim, and I had some bandit signs made and we put them around the neighborhoods of UCF in order to try to wholesale houses, but we only got calls from other wholesalers trying to sell us their houses.

I am trying to get into my first deal which happens to be a fourplex in Miami Florida (neighborhood of Allapattah).