It's more an industrially historic area (the old asbestos plant is here) than a farmhouse/colonial type town full of old gorgeous homes.

The infestation happened because he had a soft heart and tried to help out a homeless teen so we suffered that expensive learning experience together.

Or if you like what you do then you could suffer for a while and stack up on cash from work and also do real estate.

I'd be happy to plant the seed for her. 

Plant hydro tomatoes?

Again, this clause is rarely used and I have yet to hear of an investor who suffered from it.

Using a two-tone paint scheme, changing some knobs and light fixtures and planting some shrubs is going to improve the property value by $1.5M!!

Unfortunately, we have seen a lot of redevelopment money, redirected and not being used for their original allocation purposes, being that we are the State's capital Sacramento sometimes suffers when there are shortages and investing in future expectations could be costly.However, this is just my pennies worth, (I wouldn't even call my two cents) but make sure you do your due diligence before you invest and know that a lot of us local investors that are trying to stay on top of the curve are looking at the same areas you are looking at, you just need to be careful how you invest in those areas.

You'll find a lot of multis built in the late 1890s to the 1930s and those come with all the usual physical plant precautions - knob & tube, cedar pilings, ancient plumbing, etc.RPR is a good tool, but more than that, I'd be looking at Trulia's crime heat maps and MLS rental histories. 

When I was making the beds and planting shrubs around it a few years back there was even a concrete Block with A Wood Post buried coming Out That Had been Cut Down.