Summary: <br> <br> Classifying a neighborhood by “type”, or what many investors refer to as a “grade”, is typically nothing more than a subjective description. Although most people will have a general idea of what is being referred to, in my experience it is usually nothing more than a qualitative rather than quantitative description.<br> <br> Because of that ambiguity, we’ve developed a proprietary, simple grading system that we use with all our investment-grade properties. In this episode we help you to better understand neighborhood types.<br> <br> We also take a look at another turnkey investment property available in our Deal of the Day segment.<br> <br> - - - - - - -<br> <br> Get your FREE copy of The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing.<br> <br> SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES | Stitcher | Podcast Feed<br> <br> Give us a Rating & Review<br> <br> <br> Choosing the Right Neighborhood<br> Hello. Welcome back to another episode of Passive Real Estate Investing. I'm your host, Marco Santarelli. This is the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income and create wealth for the long term. Thanks for joining us again. Today's show is very important. It's about choosing the right neighborhood and how do you go about doing that. This is an important topic.<br> <br> A lot of people talk about neighborhoods and how they qualify them or grade them, but classifying a neighborhood by type varies from investor to investor. In fact, what many investors refer to as a grade is typically nothing more than a subjective description. Although most people will have a pretty general idea of what is being referred to, in my experience, it is usually nothing more than a qualitative rather than a quantitative description. The fact is, is there's no formal definition out there of what a neighborhood type or neighborhood grade is.<br> <br> In fact, if you go back to episode number four where I talk about turnkey real estate investing and turnkey real estate investments, even there I have talked about there not being a formal definition of what turnkey real estate and real estate investments are. Everybody has a different idea or definition of what that might be. In an effort to level the playing field and define what that is, I've gone into some detail about that in episode four. If you haven't listened to that, be sure to take a listen.<br> <br> With this ambiguity, we've, over the years, developed a somewhat proprietary but simple grading system that we use to grade all of our investment grade properties. To help you better understand this, I'm going to go over a basic overview and describe each of the neighborhood types and the grading system and what it means so you have an idea of what it should mean in case you don't know. If you have your own idea, I'm sure this is going to be fairly similar to your existing model or paradigm of neighborhood grading.<br> <br> <br> <br> Hopefully, this will help you to better understand how to look at a neighborhood and grade it or put it into some sort of spectrum in order to compare one neighborhood from another and what may be a good choice versus what may be a bad choice. Ultimately, this comes down to what is your investment criteria. If you know what your goals are, you have a strategy, you've defined what your criteria is, finding the properties that fit that criteria to meet your goals becomes infinitely easier.<br> <br> Let's begin by describing the low income neighborhoods. These are typically what we call C and D grade neighborhoods. These low income neighborhoods generally have a large portion of their residence on government assistance. For example, the section eight housing program. The ratio of renters to owner occupied homes in these areas are often greater than 50% and more often they're as high as 80%. A C grade neighborhood would probably be 50 to 60, 70% tenant occupied.
