In neighborhood it is very important to present your self to the home owner next to you, this helps a lot to prevent misunderstandings. also this shows your professionalism.

I doubt many tech workers are located in that neighborhood. 

If they are a small bank and have say $1.5mm limit does that fit you for a while?  

I would have answer to the questions then with those answer, I would ask, can you find a better deal (equity, cash flow, appreciation potential etc.) that better fits your portfolio and is it worth the extra time?

The city wants to have "Neighborhood Anchors Points" consisting of Mixed-Use and Retail/commercialVisual of all land bank properties The area I will focus in.A break down of cost to purchase all Land Bank properties on each street. 

On the flip side, if you've got a bunch of Section 8 tenants living in a building that's in a neighborhood where a lot of the tenant base has good jobs, high credit scores, and are generally reliable people, you've got the most risky tenants in that tenant base and that ain't what ya want.

We've helped hundreds of investors in the Metro Detroit area and are the only ones analyzing Detroit's 183+ Neighborhoods to ID the best ones to invest in. 

But this comes with pockets of C/D neighborhoods, and higher potential for headaches;  in addition, appreciation in these zips has probably maxed out for a while.

Also, if you were in our position, what questions should we be asking the lenders to make sure it is a good fit?

C & D neighborhoods in an around Cleveland would probably be what you want to do.