I do like to head to Louisiana for black drum a few times a year as well. 

I almost got a speeding ticket driving a rented black Ford Mustang through Bend.  

The usual japes, hanging a noose from a tree, black glove with middle finger up, just general racist "first ammendment" stuff against my tenant just didn't get a response from the cops.So one Saturday, the racist neighbor kicked off, my tenant called the cops, used the line he'd been practicing for a few days.Sheriff office sent a supervisor, who saw this racist practicing his first ammendment rights, decided that it was harrassment with credible threat, the neighbor got hauled away, spent two months in jail, the tenant got a restraining order from the judge, and after some back and forth, the neighbor took a plea.

@Stacy GilmanHave you checked out the Black Diamond meetings in Worcester?

I personal favorite is the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham (Alternates every month with their Worcester location, next Waltham one is July) and they draw well from both sides of the city so you can make NH and Cape connections there.

Up to then they were enforceable in California based on a California Supreme court decision and neighbors made sure they were enforced so agents would check the status when they took a listing and include it in the MLS information.I did have a black friend that wanted to buy in a mixed race area but that particular property had the restriction.

Here it is in black and white, will a listing agent pay more attention to an investor coming in with an offer for the agent to double dip commissions, possibly tripple dip, or one who comes in with a buyers agent where their max is 3%?

this way, if you have to pick up $500 of the expenses but in one year - you can purchase another 3 unit property and rent the one you were living in for $1100 - then BAM - you know with pretty good certainty that the first property will be cashflowing for a roughly $600 profit (or in the black).then you live in a unit in the second property and hopefully can come close to breaking even...however - this can be a real pain in the buttocks...the bottom line is you want to avoid properties that don't cash flow, unless you're an experienced investor and bank on quick appreciation values (speculative investing).

The inability to get 20k mortgages combined with the opinion of banks that these areas are write-offs anyway led to these areas being shortsale black holes for a long time.Kansas City springs to mind.

FYI: I rant the numbers using a 70% rule and it still came out in the black.