Agreed with Many of the posts - but it's like anything else - the more risk the more POTENTIAL reward....Ex - A company in Harrisburg is started buying block and blocks of condemned props in a pretty crappy neighborhood...

Either you have demonstrated ability to do it successfully many times over or you put up a large chunk of your own cash so YOU take the first loss, not me.Investing is about balancing risk and reward.

I determine the amount of reward I expect from the risk.-- Now, I can determine the value of the property based upon what I plan to do and not what others are doing to other properties.This is certainly not the only method, nor will it work for everyone.

The bigger the 'risk', the bigger the reward in some of the other areas.  

They've all been handsomely rewarded since that first JV and after the first one went through I was the one turning down potential investors and putting caps and limits and generally having a better bargaining position--but I made sure not to forget the ones who took a risk on me initially.

In your opinion should I be rewarded for additional labor or docked for hiring things out?

This means understanding what investment really means, what investment options are open to you, how to manage money and taxation whilst balancing a risk reward ratio.

Yikes.Detroit is a High Risk High Reward type of person.

I believe the courts will not treat this case as a normal case, due to the tenants not moving in and will thus reward the landlord one months rent.If they had actually moved in. 

I was looking at new builds in Atlanta ( south ) production stuff but I passed.. to many partners so reward was not worth the PG.I am mid range  350 to 600k is our product