I'm not sure if it's designated this way, but I'd say it's a tertiary Seattle market, but probably too far for any Seattle commuting.

A lot young folks are moving in from the outer suburbs (where once their grandparents/parents lived) and buying houses to renovate and live in Detroit.https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/detroit-housing-market-sees-growth-attracts-young-people-cityhttps://www.citylab.com/design/2018/04/can-detroits-suburbs-survive-a-downtown-revival/558764/

This is a wood-fired fireplace and I was thinking along the same lines with the decorative brickwork or temporary design to block off the front portion. 

How did you learn to design or pick out the colors and styles you used?

They are self-sustaining monsters at this point,  and myself growing up in Sugar Land, it feels like it's own protective bubble out there.  

This is assuming all goes perfect, which is less likely investing in "C and D" properties.Sorry to burst your bubble, but you need to go with the Land Contract or Lease Option Entry strategies, and avoid the "C & D" properties.

This entity is for raising 3rd party capital, though I am not sure whether it should be a disregarded or elect C-Corp designation for tax purposes.

It appears that the bubble really hurt the rental market here, then the crash corrected it back to what was normal based on the data.

These meetings are more designed to gather people that struggle with wholesaling.Indeed... other than struggling wholesalers you have the newbies that get convinced REI meetings is the answer, just like you are being convinced now... then the other REI frequenter is your traditional hard money lender that tries to make money on innocent young investors eager to start, and anyone else that tries to make money off of it somehow.Lastly you have a few cash buyers that know nothing about marketing that desperately need a property to flip.

Hate to burst your bubble.....there is a zero percent chance it will go for 17,000.