Do you have any tips or resources on how to evaluate a neighborhood to determine the neighborhood class?

I've found that, once a property hits any list, it's already picked over and there's competition because others also have the list.The best wholesale deals are properties you can buy very cheap in order to resell low enough that an investor can buy it from you and still make their own profit.

So here’s what I think you should to: pick two actual cities and optimize around “want”.

I'm sure the owners of Seamus, Felix's, Heavy Riff, and the like won't be complaining about 100 upper-middle class customers plopping down across the street.

I would take some classes from a local expert or attorney who knows the sale and then dip your toe for 6 months.

Currently at this time this area is not desirable and this is only an opinion of mine, but if this plan picks up speed and the city of Milwaukee decides to revitalize it wouldn't it be something you wish you had invested in?

Working for someone else and in the rat race...Growing up I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur and the more I’ve learned about real estate through books, classes, and podcast I think real estate is the is the direction I’d like to go with my entrepreneurial mind.

I'd love to hear from more experienced investors in similar market class (SF flips and small MF buy and hold) about which calculations they use to give me a better idea of how to make sense of the numbers. 

I focus primarily on C class areas and properties.

I'm a local HML myself now, but I encourage everyone to develop their own private money in their circles of influence and spend a little time each year putting on a class on how to do it.