Considering pulling the trigger with a quad plex. All units are filled generating $1725 a month in rents. Roughly $105 in tax and $300 in operating expenses. I have a HELOC ready for $23k. I would put down 20%. The s...

@Andrew Easterling  Roxbury is historically one of the worst areas of Boston for crime - but it's gentrifying as other parts of Boston are priced out of sight.For example, duplexes in Boston as a whole range in price from $589,000 (Mattapan) to $4.65M (Back Bay).If you want to gamble on a high crime area in the path of gentrification, I'd consider Mattapan. 

Good luck in your REI adventures and hope to see you at one of the local events around town. 

Just want to start off things right for my first adventure in real estate investing.

It is always a gamble when buying a condo unless maybe it just received its recertification recently.

I'm currently taking a break from my New York realtor career to go on the adventure of a lifetime (sailing around the world with my fiancee) and we have determined for a long time that we are not going back to New York. 

Smart investors make their money when they buy - waiting for appreciation seems to be a bit like gambling.

Look forward to hearing about your real estate adventures.

I am interested in speaking with fellow Baltimore buy and hold investors about how they identify and analyze potential properties for investment in addition to how they are structuring their equity partnerships if they are using OPM.Looking forward to starting this adventure and meeting the investment community!

This is the beginning of a new adventure for you as well as a learning experience.