It's never smart to 'red-line' where any minor blip in the economy will take you down.

I am only interested to see the content between the red lines.

The charts below tracks what I follow and update every week:Thick blue and red lines - they show average prices of all 2-4 family and 1-family properties sold in the preceding 12 months.Thin blue and red lines - they show the 40-week (200-day) moving average of those same prices. 

Of course when you look downtown the home prices get much higher, however, there is a historically redlined area, that is still very close to downtown, and just because it's on the west side of the freeway and houses are less taken care of, you see homes for less.Developers are quickly snatching up properties because of this reason and because recent zoning laws have done away with single family zoning, so I'm feeling a sense of urgency to get into a home in this very specific neighborhood.I'm not a super personable guy and feel strange knocking on doors, so I started digging into delinquent taxes.

They came back and red-lined the crap out of our requests! 

This is not red lining, it's selecting hotter markets.

Hyde Park, Dorchester, Milton (maybe), Watertown, Quincy (depending on the part given the size, you want closer to the city or a Red Line stop).If you have the money and/or the ability to renovate you could take on a beat up property.

If you want to run your rental business on the financial redline and be 2 months of vacancies away from bankruptcy, by all means go for it.

Are you aware of the Hidden Red LIne Properties that are on a map with the Public Works Department?

Most successful wholesalers of residential property concentrate in the areas where the real estate brokers don't function well - "ugly" houses, those that need extensive renovation, low priced homes not worth the realtors time or energy, and those homes in certain "redlined" neighborhoods where the major real estate brokers choose not to operate.