IMHO, negative cashflow is fine if the area is appreciating rapidly and has no indication of slowing down. 

The value of college is rapidly deterioating, attendance is dropping and costs will only accelerate their growth curves and this will only cause things to worsen when the entire college industry is taken into account. 

Why Phoenix: Jobs and the economy, we are growing at a rapid rate with great diversity in employment sectors.

DM for title companies that are wholesale friendly in Grand Rapids 

I currently invest in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Metro Detroit.

I will also be at the KARHA meeting this Tuesday, and the West Michigan REI Club meeting that he mentioned.If you can't get enough, there are also RPOA meetings in Grand Rapids every Friday morning.

We are newer investors in the Grand Rapids MI area looking for new contacts and leads on properties in the West Michigan area.

Airy (19119) and W Germantown closer to Germantown Ave and up north (19144)Southern Eastwick (19153)C: Mix of buy and holds and flips, typically a BRRR neighborhood.West Side of Cobbs Creek this one is rapidly changing (19143/39)South Haddington (19139)Lower West Oak Lane (19138)Mid Kingsessing (19143), Pockets of Elmwood Park (19142) down to Parts of Eastwick (19156)East Germantown further away from Germantown Ave (19144, 19138) or closer to Wayne Junction (19144)Rest of Port Richmond (19134)Olney (19120), La Salle Area (19141, 19144) , Most of the neighborhoods that are adjacent to Broad, north of Roosevelt Blvd all the way to ~Godfrey (19141, 19126)Strawberry Mansion from Cecil B to Diamond (19121)Allegheny West North Of Cambria (19132)Eastwick (19153)C-: Mainly rentals with some low end flips.Elmwood Park (19142)Southern Strawberry Mansion from Diamond to Lehigh (19132)Allegheny West between Somerset and Indiana Ave (19132)NE Harrowgate (19134)Carrol Park/Heston Ville (19131)D: Almost exclusively rentals with home depot style flips.Mill Creek (19139)Most of Elmwood Park, especially the tinier and narrow streets (19142)Parts of Strawberry Mansion by Lehigh Ave to Somerset Ave in Allegheny West(19132)Pretty much all of 22nd Street to Frankford Ave between Lehigh and Roosevelt Blvd (with some exceptions for properties bordering Roosevelt Blvd) (19132, 19140, 19133, 19134)Good Chunk of Frankford (19124)F: Higher Crime and objectively Philly's center for its opioid epidemic.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) commercial investment investment in Grand Rapids.

My good friend Brook Bisonet is an attorney the Grand Rapids area.