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Revitalized Detroit: Affordable, Lucrative, and Growing - Nader Shariff #6048 · Financial Survival Network

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  It really started off with a boom from my perspective, from what I've been
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  looking at, it started off over the boom of investors realizing that they can
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  capitalize on buying really cheap housing. You're listening to Carrie Lutz's Financial Survival Network,
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  Financial Survival Network now more than ever, And welcome. You are listening to
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  midway through April. The world hasn't ended yet, but looks like we're getting
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  pretty close. But in the meantime, if you've got investible funds, we've
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  got a place for you to think about that you probably never thought about before.
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  You're going to be shocked when you hear it. You're not going to
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  believe Detroit, Na dare sure Reef is with us now. Nadair, It's
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  great to have you on the show. So Detroit, like you know,
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  is like the last place I would be thinking of buying a property. And
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  yet things have changed there, haven't they. Yeah for sure. Well,
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  first off, thanks so much for having me on the show. Second off,
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  yeah, I would say a lot has changed there, right. I
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  mean, we were talking briefly before this started about what makes detroitvit a viable
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  or a good option for investors to look into. I mentioned some of the
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  key points being, you know, a low entry price point, the ability
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  to source deals with a good good amount of equity, the fastest appreciation rate
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  in the country right now, and the strong returns annually from a rental perspective.
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  But you know, add to the fact of all the redevelopment going down
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  on downtown, how it's stretching into Midtown and Corktown, how certain commercial spaces
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  are being tapped into on the east and west side in certain subdivisions. Just
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  got a lot going on right now. It's pretty remarkable because that city was
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  given up for dead, you know. And it's funny because around the turn
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  of the century, the twentieth from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, you
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  know, in the thirties forties, Detroit was the richest city in the country.
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  Wow, yeah, for sure. Yeah, So how did all this
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  happen. Well, I think it really started off with a boom from my
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  perspective, from what I've been looking at, it started off over the boom
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  of investors realizing that they became capitalize on buying really cheap housing and providing lower
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  income housing. And so when I first stepped into the marketplace, you know,
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  properties were going for like twenty thirty thousand turn key, right, And
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  so I think it it became an option for investors that were getting price out
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  of their local marketplace to start putting their funds in assets in Detroit, real
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  estate in Detroit, and I think that just continued to drive up prices.
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  And then once you know, aside from all the redevelopment, once you know,
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  you started to see news pop up of major industries kind of looking into
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  Detroit as a viable option. I mean Google has an office downtown, Rocket
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  Mortgages headquartered downtown. All these companies are starting to look into like maybe migrating
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  into Detroit. It just kind of fueled that even more. Right, So,
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  give us an idea of some of the returns you've been the experiencing there.
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  I mean, on average, the strategy behind it is we're going into
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  c class blocks, and I say blocks because Detroit is literally a block by
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  block marketplace. Right, things can rapidly change from street A street B.
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  Average price points are anywhere from eighty five to ninety five thousand all in,
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  and we're renting them from an average of twelve hundred to thirteen hundred a month.
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  Generally, after all expenses, you can expect anywhere from about a ten
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  to thirteen percent return, obviously, not factoring in capex maintenance repairs. Kinderally
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  are investors for fact twenty percent for that. Yeah, so it sounds like
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  the returns are good. How risky is it though? Great question. I
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  think a lot of people tend to focus on the pros and try to forget
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  about the cause or the risks. It's definitely more risky than say in New
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  York City or a Miami or a Los Angeles. You know, obviously,
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  when investing in real estate, you have to be mentally prepared for the fact
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  that you might run across a non paying tenant. Another thing you need to
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  run across or think about, is you know, a lot of these homes
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  are older homes, right, They're built in the nineteen tens, thirties,
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  and so Unfortunately, the values don't allow us to do full gut renovations right
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  now because the renolds would exceed the value of the property itself, right,
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  And so a lot of people are doing mostly cosmetic updates a few mechanicals dalbinized
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  plumbing, to packs, maybe an electrical panel being spot out, And so
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  you need to kind of start preparing yourself to you know, for the first
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  six months to a year after doing your reno, you might have an increase
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  in maintenance or repair calls. That's something to keep in mind. Yeah,
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  I could see that being the case. So and then, like, it's
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  my perception that Detroit's not like a tenant landlord friendly jurisdiction. Is that so?
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  Yeah, I mean it's definitely more in favor of the tenant, right,
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  But like we were talking about earlier, I mean comparing it to a
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  city like New York, it's definitely more favorable, right. Average eviction to
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  turn around time is anywhere from three to four months, three months being if
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  the tenant moves out on the day a judge would order them to move out.
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  In additional thirty days have to apply for a writ and call off the
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  bailiff to get out there. Right, So I can go from threedom okay,
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  so cash on cash return, can you hit into the teens for sure?
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  Okay? And so it kind of reminds me of Buffalo. Buffalo is
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  a city given up for dead. I mean, I wouldn't live there.
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  The weather, it's so horrible. But I have a lot of a lot
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  of friends who live there. I don't blame them in the least, but
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  yeah, so it's a large influx of the of people move in, you
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  know, people coming from other countries. The state actually puts some money into
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  meaningful places like healthcare Tesla. They got them to open a factory there,
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  although I don't think it's really ever reached its target there. Kind of the
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  same thing. It's a it's located on Lake Erie, right, So I
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  guess Detroit's with Detroit's on Lake Michigan, I guess us. But both former
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  industrial cities in decline, the rust belt, literally the epitome of the rust
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  belt, and yet they've made a turnaround. So maybe maybe this can happen
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  anyplace. Huh, Yeah, I'd say so, but I think yeah,
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  I would agree with you. So the question is is it too late for
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  you to get in on the land rush in in Detroit or is it just
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  starting a great question? Well, I gets asked a lot. I definitely
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  don't think it's too late. I mean, we are seeing a significant amount
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  of increase in values. I think last year was around eight point seven percent
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  increase in property values across across the city, which is way higher than the
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  national average. However, we're still sub a hundred k when when we're looking
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  at average points. I think we ran a graph the other week it looked
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  like the average price point was around eighty four thousand for a Turkey home let's
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  say, right, so at some point we'll exceed that on a thousand mark
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  and it you know, as we continue to increase, it gets more and
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  more difficult for two reasons. Either the rents don't follow as rabbits at a
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  rapid rate and the returns start to diminish, or you just get it out.
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  But as of right now, I think it's actually a great time to
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  enter. You're not having to struggle like a lot of us did that entered
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  seven years ago or eight years ago. But you're also not paying a huge
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  premium yet, right Yeah, Because I know the real estate prices in Buffalo
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  went totally gaga. There was a lot of new construction, and is there
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  a new construction going on? There is anybody building houses in Detroit? Yet
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  obviously in Metro Detroit they are in this city itself. For Detroit proper as
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  we call it, there are a few subdivisions where you see some new construction
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  popping up, but not as much across the board. And it leads into
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  the next conversation of you know, right right now, basically for the most
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  part of the city, land doesn't have real value. You're essentially buying the
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  structure on the land because it costs too much to build relative to you know,
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  what you can sell or what the property's worth, right, and so
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  at this second, it doesn't make any financial sense to build in a lot
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  of subdivisions, but there are certain ones getting targeted for that, so you
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  think that's going to happen though obviously the prices have to go up and rents
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  have to go up. What's your average rental and what are your properties there?
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  Well anywhere it can go anywhere from eleven hundred and thirteen hundred, so
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  the rents have really got up. Huh yeah. Yeah. So when we
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  started, it was like I think like six or seven hundred dollars a month,
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  and that's not too far back and you're talking about let's five years ago.
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  Is that like seven or eight hundred dollars a month? Right? So,
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  uh, what's what's the unemployment situation like in Detroit these days? Yeah,
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  so you have a lot of new businesses opening up, and obviously as
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  more companies continue to come into Detroit, it's not providing opportunity and more jobs
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  in Detroit, right, Like Rocket Mortgage has been a huge company that has
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  provided a lot of jobs for people or the locals. That's that's nice to
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  hear, you know, because it was once a great city here, and
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  it's nice that it's getting a renaissance. And hey, like I said,
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  if Buffalo can come back from the brink of extinction, then so can Detroit.
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  And the weather in the summer there is really nice, isn't it?
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  One of my favorite places to be in for the summer? Winter not so
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  much, but come with far right exactly, but Michigan summers are some of
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  the best summers that I've had. Yeah, beautiful, I mean the lake
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  and it's really really nice there. So all right, so people want to
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  find out more about what you're doing there in the there and want to connect
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  with you and find out more. How do you do that? Yeah,
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  easiest way is to hop onto our website invest in upside dot com and on
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  there they'll have a bunch of information, post blogs daily, they'll be able
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  to read out Bond Detroit and then obviously they can contact us through there.
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  All right, Hey, appreciate you coming on. He got a question or
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  Really appreciate you coming on the there. Good luck and help make Detroit
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  great again. Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Thanks for listening
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