Both tactics offer distinct benefits, and your decision will be based on your tastes, goals, and local market conditions.

I get the distinct impression you want to use it sometimes so it needs to be closer rather than farther.There are a lot of mountains out here in the west.

Now people that do this but also take the listings if they can't buy it are treading on more dangerous ground.

Some areas are even walkable to the last subway stop in the Bronx although that seems to be the more dangerous area of the city.

🙌Establishing distinct legal organizations for each acquired property is a prudent course of action.

@chance @Chance Cooper yes but I have another post about worker comp dangers, so I hired them through a staffing company while legal and legit I didn't have to mess with payroll taxes and workers comp.

Everyone advertises properties as being "blocks from the beach" which are very dangerous areas and not resort or tourist areas.

Scheduled to open in the summer of 2019, the $51 million, five- story, 267-unit development will be a large and distinctive presence on the east side of Water Street.- In the past five years, Mobile has experienced a 33% increase in manufacturing jobs compared with about 8% nationally.- McGowin Park developed a huge retail space in 2015 which consists of: 199,500- square-foot retail shopping center containing a future expansion area, five restaurant "pads" and 4.5 acres of outparcel development, and the west development consists of a 148,000-square-foot anchor store with an associated gas station, an 89,600-square-foot shopping center and 7.41 acres of outparcel area.

Putting a space heater in every room can be very dangerous on the electrical systems.  

Hi Michael,I see gentrification, in some areas, and some areas I would not go into day or night.I doubt D-Town will come back to level of Chicago or Austin in our lifetimes because I do not see the high paying large scale multi-multi employer base in the area.There seems to be money to be made there in the non-life threatening areas though, and with the local "Rah Rah" for the area that will probably continue as the dangerous element is driven out by higher costs (where they are going is important too, because dangerous areas seem to be on the move now).In addition to real estate, I see money to made there in (good affordable) startup restaurants, and franchises in super safe walkable areas such as McDonald's or Starbucks (because these franchises seem to work everywhere).Detroit still suffers from city government issues and it's reputation as the Murder Capital.Though I'm not a commercial building investor, I think 4 story or lower (the lower the better) commercial buildings (store/restaurant) that can be bought cheap and refurbished to current standards (providing you can get commercial contractors to go there and work), then held and rented seems like a decent prospect.