Personally, I've been investing more than 50 years and never looked at the demographics for a neighborhood one time because I always felt that you need more personal knowledge about the neighborhood e.g. whether it is blue-collar working people, whether it infested with gangbangers, what the ability to increase rents is, etc. and the only way to get a good feeling and understanding is to personally visit the neighborhoods in the daytime, evenings and on weekends because weekends and nighttime is when the bad people come out like cockroaches.

Personal liquidity and some "dry powder"2,500,000 - Quicker Return Investments.

Go to the City in person with pictures and see who can help you get this taken care of.

As that will at least help folks that you reach out to know that you are a real person, with a picture and professional bio.

When I got involved in notes I started with doing more deals - i was buying lower priced assets and choosing quantity over quality which was "risky" but I did very well and learned a ton.

From my research the template seems to be a packet including: Developer Credentials Personal Statement (Available Upon Request) List of RE Owned Current Property packet with Pro-Forma, Rent Roll, Comps, Budget, Projected Returns - similar to an OM on most CRE packets.This was a good guide, Commercial real estate finance: A basic guide for an effective loan request package - Buffalo Business First (bizjournals.com)Commercial real estate finance: A basic guide for an effective loan request package - Buffalo Business First (bizjournals.com)

Does anyone know of a property management person/company that serves the St.

One person did tell me I could possibly turn it into an efficiency or something like that but would need a special exception.

Personally I have done that and it works!

As that will at least help folks that you reach out to know that you are a real person, with a picture and professional bio.