The area is not a war zone but is a lower blue collar area (for anyone local, it's off of Broad River between I-20 and Bush River Road).  

HEY BP FAMILY,Being a blue collar kind of guy, I'm always learning new things about running a small business.

@Marcus Auerbach My target market is blue collar families that are above poverty but not high income earners.

Would anyone be interested in a meetup this Thursday evening, perhaps at the Blue Moon Taphouse?

It really surprises me, and disturbs me a little, to think that you could call an employer out of the blue and say "Jane Doe works for you, right?

@Paul Sandhu has some excellent advice, and his niche that caters to blue-collar short-term workers is not nearly as crowded as the more traditional STR space.  

High ceilings, hard wood, quite street with easy parking, 5 min walk to the blue line and a small yard.

C areas tend to be more blue collar rental neighborhoods not a lot of heavy crime.

An attorney MUST be involved in some critical aspects of the process (which I think is a little crazy... but I don't make the laws there).For instance, according to their logic, if you create your own deed, they've determined that this is synonymous with "practicing law", which you can only do if you're an attorney.I believe some states require that the ENTIRE process be handled by an attorney, and some states only require that certain aspects be handled by an attorney (as long as an attorney creates the deed, you can do everything else).I actually spent a ton of time back in 2016 trying to figure out which states require what, and based on what I could find (with hundreds of phone conversations with attorneys and title companies), I came up with the map I outlined in this blog post: https://retipster.com/real-estate-closing-agents - essentially, the states that are dark blue are the most restrictive in terms of who can conduct closings (and as it seems, the further west you go, the easier it is to close deals yourself).

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