If you are willing to do some work, you can force appreciation, capture some equity, which boosts rent-to-value.In terms of areas to avoid, I would stay away from the East side, particularly anything along Post road between Pendleton Pike and I-74. 

@Ryan Fox - It's pretty unpredictable in my opinion, but I'm sure there are people way smarter than me that can better see/predict what's coming down the pike.  

Quote from @Paul Azad: Quote from @David Pike: I just received an email this morning about Fund 2 with an update on first quarter performance.

There are going to more and more of these coming down the pike as interest rates continue to stay high.

I say we skip the fines and just burn them at the stake, then leave the bodies on pikes as warnings for those to come 🤣🤣🤣

I currently live In Pike County Georgia.

The A.G. will salivate at opportunity to add another head to the pike's that they can coin "predatory investor" to help further there career. 

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I don't know all the areas of real-estate you operate in or what strategies you use. but something tells me they are either an idiot or they may know something you do not about that property and either its past or its future. most likely there is something coming down the pike in about 3-5 years. just my thoughts.

Then another thing I see coming down the pike is the credit card debt.