You send money to people you don’t know and have never met hoping that they actually do what they are supposed to without any escrow company or Trust account involved.

I said I want to network with people.

Hi @Michael J.Here's the link to change notification settings.However, we also just discovered a bug that started last Friday, which sent select people repeated emails for every forum post.

Some people will take advantage of others. 

You'll find they have a few scars and stories to share that don't match the rosy picture painted by new investors that have never experienced a down market.I know a very respected Property Manager in Florida.

Most people don't really read reviews.

Maybe the HOA people can tell you if the wall is constructed out of block. 

Are there any specific resources you’d point me to with respect to learning more about Detroit?

Throw an LLC together with a few people with $1m each, and buy it, San Francisco isn't short of folks who got lucky with this or that IPO and have the money, most of those tech companies have an unofficial employee-maintained slack/discord channel where they talk about real estate stuff.

I knew several people who had an undeniably great stretch (probably in that 20% range) until the GR and FC hit them in the face.