I replaced the window in the guest bathroom with a stained glass window I found for $150 in a Salvage/antique shop off of 7th ave in phoenix, called Qcumberz.

My wife wanted to go antiquing so I dropped her in a town.

I'm not addressing cash flow here, because that's deal specific and investor specific.But here is a little tour of a "Typical (San Antonio)" (C minus) neighborhood with typical (C minus) structures I picked in a random neighborhood on Google drive around view.What (to me) makes a (C minus) area (in San Antonio) is an abundance of, Loose dogs in the street, fenced front yards with fences leaning and in disrepair, yards full of all sorts of debris (because the little houses lack storage space), antique (who knows how old) paint, neglected leaning secondary structures in disrepair, car repairs going on but seemingly abandoned, pickup trucks from the Carter Administration to the early 90's, Residents who WORK for a living, No chain of Murders, No Sal-mon in the fish tacos in neighborhood restaurants, decent nice (helpful) people you can talk to, extended families living close to each other who help each other, not unlawful in their ways.

My parents have been using the building between tenants to sell re-sale antiques (free rent of course, but saves me from having to have vacant property insurance).

I use the same colors everytime Dover White or Antique White.

its good u will have some realtors helping u i would not advise investing in detroit blindly...some things to consider...property values suck so a buy and hold strategy is pretty much a given in the market at this time...second be sure to look in areas where taxea are not crazy high..detroit has a very antiquated tax system where the taxes u pay are higher than the property is worth...depending on where u want to invest in the city..u can have some pretty decent returns..the path of progression from what i see is around downtown as businesses are opening in the area...there is talk of an emergency financial manager being assigned to the area which should bemore indication of the issues facing detroit at this time.

Then yes, that is transparent.But as I have said before, an antique dealer who acquires one of the Art Noveau monstrosities my wife likes to collect is not her partner.  

Some beautiful antique linens that I use regularly.

Old Fashioned Antiquated Marketing Still Works!

Those are antiquated instruments used primarily as predatory devices.