Is it a good decision to buy local metro properties that the city is trying to get rid of.

I'm looking for a recommendation for an excellent accountant in the Metro Detroit area who you've worked with to do the taxes for your real estate ventures.

I am also around the metro-atlanta area, Gwinnett County to be more precise.

I   imagine metro LA as a 50 mile by 50 mile suburb where in theory there's still plenty of room for townhouses with a good sized footprint.  

Hi Steve,I'm originally from OK, now living in CA, but I still invest in the OK metro areas.

sorry, I'm looking in the DC Metro area.

In Dallas metro where I invest, I would buy a duplex with this money as down payment and lease them out - better cash flow than a SFR and you are positioned better to avoid 0 or 100% vacancy situation that you have with a SFR. 

Benioff counted four signature towers in London, Paris, Tokyo and San Francisco, with the latter still under construction.

by and large if a parcel of land in any major metro city was on MLS  and did not sell then it was overpriced probably by a lot... or has some other hair on it.IN markets were new construction is viable and hot land deals sell in a matter of hours or days at the most to builders looking for lots.my take on Texas as whole ( not Austin though) is there is so much land that builders and developers have a lot of options and unless you have some sort of infill in a super hot spot  your dealing with a parcels with limited value or desirability or physical constraints for environmental or regulatory impediments.   

(metro statistical area)  here is a link to the most recent data from Census.gov In the opinion of many experienced investors (and by experienced I mean investors who have been around the block a few times and have had both success and failure) including myself, the market is what you look at first.