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Rkr24,
Buy one of the small houses just north of Oakwood main, Culver and that area. If you are there for 5 years, I am guessing a surgical residency.....You'd do well to live close, and that is a reasonably safe area as well as dirt cheap. Lots of families with kids and older people. I would live between Oakwood and Outer Drive, south of Rotunda and north of Oakwood.
If not, move to the Dearborn Hills area, close to the Dearborn Hills Golf Course. (Not the Country Club) Lots of homes for sale there too. This is a very stable and attractive area. Several houses for sale by owner. If you need help, talk to Med-Ed, and they can refer you to docs who live in the area.
Good luck, and kick some butt on the wards! - Wed Apr 16 2008, 21:39

This house was occupied by people who trashed it! However, it has a very deep lot, and if you actually want to live in it, and you have the money to clean up the trash the people did to the house (animal feces, blow-up dolls and other fun stuff...), you'd have a very nice home! But this one will require a lot of work. I know because I have been in it...!!! Gross. - Wed Apr 16 2008, 21:29

Actually, Gary is incorrect. Any good realtor can talk to you honestly without a buyer's agency agreement, and if you do sign one, it can be rescinded at any time by you. In Dearborn, I have only met one decent realtor. I have lived in multiple states and bought and sold 14 homes myself in the last 15 years. This one we bought here in the Dearborn/Dearborn Heights area, was the first one we used a realtor for. If you want his name, let me know here, and I'll give it to you. Be careful in general in DH as there are lots of ethnic neighborhoods you may not want to live in. Clear divides, unfortunately, in this city. Whites, blacks and muslems all live separately. If you don't care, that is fine. but some of the neighborhoods are very gang oriented. I don't know enough about Rosevelt to be able to tell you much, but you would be better off regardless, living in Dearborn as opposed to DH. Good luck, and let me know if you want Jeff Darwish's name.
Thanks! - Wed Apr 16 2008, 21:17