Maybe you can take a step down and get something cheaper in a blue collar area that doesn’t look so good when you drive by.

Why would people go to Canyon Lake People need to get out of Austin and San Antonio (two of the country’s top 10 largest populations) this is the best boating lake in Central Texas, blue water and laid back.

Price is actually a really good filter, you may not reliaze that but when you lay price filters on a mls map with listings you get the exact outline of the Trulia blue areas. 

I also browsed Zillow looking for bargain based houses in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County’s unemployment rate dropped to 11.5% last month as the county added nearly 48,000 jobs.

Blue pill or red one?

It also depends on where your "local" area is... there's a big difference in living in somewhere like Los Angeles or the Midwest.

If someone new called me as a GC out of blue I’d probably write them off too, but if you said hey I have a property that needs work and I was referred to you by “so and so” and I’m looking to complete by ______ that would be a start.

Interior: white and gray, plain whiteExterior: blue-gray, white, dark blue, dark gray

If you are someone who is willing to deal with difficult situations once in a blue moon, I personally feel it isn't worth it to get a PM.