In a recent podcast, a rental investor was asked about how he acts differently in high-crime inner-city areas. He responded, “That is easy: do NOT make yourself a target. Let me give you some examples: I borrow a cousin’s beat up car to visit in bad neighborhoods; when we are rehabbing a home, we never leave equipment in the home; all the windows (and sometimes doors) are boarded up until we’re ready to rent it out; basically keep the home secure and yourself safe. The returns are high but tenant turnover is higher, so you can’t rehab too well, make the home clean and functional but not marble and brass.”
Antonio Martin was a state championship football player at Detroit’s Martin Luther King High School. He then played semi-professional football and in the off-season, he worked security at a Detroit bar. It was while working at this bar when he was shot, causing permanent paralysis from the waist down. Last month, Martin finished 4th place in the 2019 World Para-Powerlifting Championship in Kazakhstan. He can bench press 560 pounds and wants to win a podium finish in the Tokyo Paralympic Games next year. He now lives in Utica with his wife and 3 children.
Oops! Detroit hosted one of the presidential debates for the democratic candidates back in July. The city wouldn’t permit protest groups outside to hold signs counter to the democratic platform – and that is a free speech no, no. So at least one group is suing Detroit for violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U. S. Consitution.
And finally, in “It is a Darwin move to be anywhere near Detroit” news,
- Detroit Police are investigating a dead body found at an apartment building on W. Grand Blvd.
- Someone fired multiple shots at Lahser and Puritan, striking 3 people, all are at the hospital.
- A 15-year-old Detroiter was charged in the fatal shooting of another 15-year-old on Belton Street, in classic Detroit fashion, the judge let him on bail for just $7,000.
- The body of a 51-year-old wife and mother of 3 was found in the Detroit River, after she went missing 3 days ago.
- A 4-alarm raging fire destroyed a senior apartment complex in Detroit on Mack Avenue.
- Paramedics were assisting a man at a Detroit home near John R and McNichols Rd. The mas was having a heart attack. Meanwhile, a man stormed into the home and paramedics heard a struggle in an adjacent room and called Detroit Police for help. That man then ran out of the house with a knife and blood on his clothes. When paramedics looked, a woman had been stabbed. Neither the woman nor heart attack victim survived.
- A woman living on Glynn Court her entire life couldn’t get the city (which owns the blighted home next door) to address the danger. The home is collapsing and debris is falling on her home and driveway. No officials in Detroit would return her persistent phone calls over months as it became an imminent threat to her home. She called a local news crew and suddenly the home has been put on the “emergency demolition” list for 10 days.
- Over a 12-hour period, Tuesday of this week – there were 5 separate shootings in Detroit and one fatality. In at least 4 of the shootings, the victim and perpetrator were known to each other.
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