YES, we may be a little biased, but check out our blog here on BP comparing Detroit to other cities and Deep Dives on Metro Detroit cities & neighborhoods: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Your biggest question shouldn't be WHERE to invest, but HOW you will invest!

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Then add in licensing, equipment, supervision, advertising, vehicles and a modest profit and the sum is large   The op said the job took him 6 hours.

1) Modest Neighborhood - newer homes (2000), 3/2  plus den, 2100 sq ft, single story.

Here is a link to that article. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/530/topics/47...Feel free to check out my BP blog as well for more info on tools I use. 

(or, just someone else shares your name)You should look into going to @James Carlson 's happy hour seminar, wherein he teaches you the Denver airBNB rules.With a $45k down payment, you could put 20% down on a $225,000 residence....and look for one with airBNB potential "suite" area.Or, if you can qualify for bigger mortgage payments, put 3.5% down on an FHA loan and look at everything up to a $12k down payment on the ($417,000 maximum loan) property thats about $425,000.Since it would be your primary residence, it would be allowed in Denver to airBNB a portion of it.There are some duplexes and even tri and quad-plexes in the modest areas of Denver that would keep you around $400k (they are very competititive.....often sell in first 24 hours to "all cash" buyers).....you could house-hack and live in one unit and rent the others.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

However, the larger innovation between real estate and crypto is the concept of bringing "Real world assets" (RWA) such as US Treasuries, bonds, equities, and of course Real Estate -- on to the blockchain. here is a link to a recent report on the latest developments in this field:https://www.rwa.xyz/blog/prime...would love to get folks' thoughts on this as an alternative pathway toward investing in real estate.