Most zoning and HOA rules don't allow for it.

I found an ugly house on a lot a lot that's zoned R2.

Well, two days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had several cocktails followed by some rather nice red wine.

We have a number of money back guarantees of satisfaction and have a list of 100% repeat satisfied investors obtaining these high returns on projects we micro manage for them from auction attendance and distressed property locating, contracting and investment due diligence with the realtor before raw land purchase to architectural, legal and zoning design issues, to contractors quotes for the scope of work in the plans, to ultimate award of contracts, coordination of the financing professionals and loan officers at the bank, their appraisal team review, VP of Bank Risk sign off, zoning approval, permitting, title clearance, closing of land, bank escrow of their construction loan to build, 11 months of onsite weekly construction inspections, coordination of all independent City inspections and Licensing and Inspection Dept. sign off weekly to code, and bank construction inspectors authorization of builders draws paid.

Miami has the biggest red bubble!

It's not a "war zone" by any means but it's more than an hour from my house and it's an older, working-class neighborhood.

In Dallas years ago an apartment in a war zone was renting out units, requiring more money if you were going to sell drugs out of the apartment,,,they not only threw the owner in jail (because obviously he was gaining financially by the drug selling since he was charging more), they took the apartments (it was 10-20 units)If someone is doing something illegal in one of your rentals, and you don't do anything about it, you could be charged for being involved,,if you don't know, thats a different story, but if you know and 'look the other way', you are asking for trouble.

Red Tagging his parents house, being pre-emptive instead of reactive to the squatter seems like what he needs to be doing.One problem that I see is that a lot of city employees aren't that up to date on more obscure points of order.

Good article a couple weeks ago on the main blog:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/12/08/cheap-properties-and-war-zones/?

Detroit loans, like other war zone loans often get in the hands of brokers because they are simply over priced and hard to liquidate.