If you're not interested in getting to know and being a positive impact on Milwaukee please don't buy here. Your money is no good here.
That is exactly how I feel about out of state investors in Youngstown. Some are OK, but there are far too many who buy distressed, slap some paint on it, and toss a bad tenant into it and suck all the life out of the property and doing nothing to make their neighborhood better (in fact, they often make the neighborhoods worse). They look at the properties as "disposable" bc they can buy in cheap, rehab cheap.
As investors, we should *all* make our properties nicer because it's the right thing to do. But caring about the neighborhood you're buying in and wanting it to appreciate is simply good business, and in high rental communities, if *all* the investors just did that little bit extra, it would make a world of difference in so many ways.
Also check out CrimeGrade.com. They do show a crime heat map, but I am having doubts with the accuracy of the data.
crimegrade.org
And I agree, the jury is still out on crimegrade. I liked Trulia's crime mapping better but maybe I was just more used to it. There were times I questioned the veracity of its data as well.
Their data for Minneapolis/St. Paul is pretty inaccurate. Very low crime areas that should be green or yellow are orange or red. The whole map seems to skew toward more crime than there actually is.
Also check out CrimeGrade.com. They do show a crime heat map, but I am having doubts with the accuracy of the data.
Looks to me like it has no compensation for density, Density gets red, no matter how expensive the area. I've noticed these kind of maps have a difficult time with density in general. If they show crime per capita, retail corridors and areas where no one lives like industrial parks show the hottest! Trulia was the best I'd seen for my area where the gradient can be really steep with good areas really close to bad.
I put in a suggestion with rent-o-meter.com to add this to their website. They are reviewing it. If you know of any other services for landlords or investors, especially paid services, please reach out to them and suggest they add this. I am sure a lot of investors would be willing to pay for the service.
I had been wondering why this was gone for months!!! The button still shows up on my app and I rarely use my desktop but it wasn't showing up anywhere on the actual full website so I decided to google it
The crime heat map was removed because they believed there was potential for bias and discrimination. This apparently started when Redfin was considering to add crime heat maps but decided against it and encouraged other real estate sites to do away with them as well.
"[G]iven the long history of redlining and racist housing covenants in the United States there’s too great a risk of this inaccuracy reinforcing racial bias,” Christian Taubman, Redfin’s chief growth officer, wrote in the Dec. 13 post. “We believe that Redfin–and all real estate sites–should not show neighborhood crime data."
How very unfortunate. Everyone should be able to tell if the neighborhood they are considering moving to is safe or higher risk. I guess Trulia doesn't think lower income people deserve to live in safe neighborhoods.
Complete Wokeness . Safety should be concerned to everyone
What's a good replacement for the Trulia crime map?
NONE!! NEVER used, IF I did, I would have never purchased one property over the last 10 years.
As I tell everyone stay off the internet, its a waste. Much to misleading. Walk the streets, drive around, ask those that are actually doing vs analizing,
