Is investing in Newark a good idea?

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Has anyone ever invested in newark? Any tips or success stories to share

[Jorge Borges]

Trulia crime map is your friend. Once you find a yellow-green area, walk the neighborhood, if you feel safe/comfortable at 3pm, 8pm and 1am (esp. On a nice summer day "more traffic"), you then look at the numbers. Biggerpockets rental calculator can help you with that.

Some of the safer neighborhoods (lower returns): Ironbound, Forest Hills

Some of the riskier neighborhoods (higher returns, on paper atleast): Westside (numbered streets), Weequahic, the Vailsburgs, etc.

I have been in Upper Roseville for 6 yrs and Westside for a yr and a half, its pretty much block by block.