In the latter (West Van), I'd say you have nothing to worry about walking neighborhoods alone; in the former (that part of East Van), I'd suggest anyone (especially new to the area) would want a second pair of eyes to "watch their back".Same likely applies to lots of different areas of "Detroit"; some are bound to be great/safe/beautiful whilst others will be more "war zone" style - can't lump it all in to the same bucket :)As far as the airport itself though, can't imagine why it'd be a problem (I can't imagine any major US airport being a problem given how much law enforcement presence there is at all of them) - having flown there myself, it's plenty safe and fine with just the usual airport stuff to watch out for (folks who aren't authorized to provide taxi services trying to solicit in terminal for example or what not else).

Brandon is a fast-rising agent/investor and a quality individual.

Some security guards stand at the main gate of a big establishment such as an industry and their work is to initiate entry and exit for the authorized people only.

Inititially I was going to buy a whole portfolio off an investor which looked solid in a big picture but some of the properties were not performing individually at all so we will build from scratch.

If it needs repairs, I would -buy @J Scott book http://get.biggerpockets.com/flippingbook/- read all of his postshttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/author/jsc...Good luck!

A good project manager will eleviate the struggles and challenges of physically managing each project and free up the time needed by an I veto to source new deals, over see marketing of current deals, and manage the enterprise.Successful Development is more about managing the individual processes involved in the developments as I opposed to actually managing all of the people involved in those individual processes.

And further, given that such a small group of individuals could undertake such a fraud without detection, what other manipulations are going on that we aren’t yet aware of?

Any individual or group that will be interested, I am open to talk with them. 

As it turns out (which they never told me), that tenant backed out and they apparently then applied for Section 8 and now have a renter in place paying $980 ($127 of which she pays and $857 of which the housing authority pays) and supposedly there is some government program that is making up the difference (I have yet to see any documentation on this).

It may help your cause if you have an idea of what they might want, like;2 years of tax formsDefinitely, personal balance sheet, or called an individual financial statement, where you fill out what your assets and debts are, loan balances on properties, market value of properties, car loans or free & clear, bank balances, life insurance, etcProfit & loss statements, perhaps a portfolio of your properties (before/after)Last 2 pay stubs, if you have a jobJust a conversation about what you've done, what you want to do, etc.