I picked 3 cities visited all 3 and made a decision..Do a google search on Milken Institutes Best Performing Cities 2018, it will have good info that might help with your research..Best of Luck

You would have to be seriously slow upstairs not to understand that if Homestead's borough budget was increased by 50%, they'd find at least SOME useful things to do with the money that would lead to improvements in the area.But obviously a lot of people weren't paying attention, and now, they're scrambling.Rankin...well, I guess that's way too much to expect, but I thought I'd throw it out here.

Second issue I'm working to improve on is just finding a deal, continue to learn and try to add more lead generation beyond just the MLS, so one day finding a deal shouldn't be an issue.What I do currently have to offer is my expertise about home condition and potential issues.

Find a industry that you love and perform it well.

I have this property under contract it has three parcels and 7 improvements and three of the improvements are commercial buildings.

Offer contingency rests heavily on condition of the park and the interiors of the abandoned homes...and assessing whether these homes can be repaired—and if so, will it cost me an arm and a leg to repair 1 or 5 or 10 of them.Obviously, this is a distressed, non-performing MHP, which has a ton of risk. 

Second, typically even if properties are in great shape you still will want to spend some money on repairs, typically one of the better ways to make money in real estate is to find properties that can have value added to them, via hiring contractors to do repairs and improve the property. 

Any amounts paid to improve a building, its structural components, or a "building system" is an improvement to the building. 

Bigger issue is if there are violations from prior to the purchase many times those violations do not appear on a title search and there's a buyer everyone should always ask the title company to perform the additional search of all Marion County city in County violations.

(b) If the landlord does not perform a personal reference check or does not obtain a consumer credit report or tenant screening report, the landlord must return any amount of the applicant screening fee that is not used for those purposes.