The city wants to tear the property and surrounding properties down Zillow said it’s worth 38000The city offer me 13000.I could use some adviceHard to give advice with limited information, but as a general rule, the longer you wait and the further down the line their project is the more valuable your property will be to them.Zillow (and all automatic online) estimates are very unreliable, so don't base on that.

This level of scrutiny drastically reduces the risk of renting to unreliable tenants.Realtors vs.

Anyone have a good web developer that has room for clients!?  

You can get screwed on changing markets and unreliable contractors though.  

As expenses fluctuate (property taxes, insurance, maintenance items, etc), the cash flow will be up and down and unreliable.

How are you managing your properties in that area given that property management company seem to be extremely unreliable and seem to go under quite frequently 

There are a lot of great resources here and around the web for people looking to invest in Birmingham.

I wonder if there is a way to web scrape for when a new realtor is hired or passed exams in the area so that I could hit them up immediately.  

I believe they use Experian but their background report is unreliable.

They claim to charge in the "high 4 figures" - one web source says it's $4800 - to join their group and get access to their network and resources.