Investing in Detroit real estate from out of state? We're your local expert and operator on the ground — the team that visits your properties, documents everything, builds your scopes and bids, and helps manage your Detroit investments end to end, so you can buy, hold, and flip with confidence without living here. And right now it's all at Detroit launch pricing — investor-grade work, priced to win your business.
Detroit rewards investors who know the neighborhoods, the numbers, and the rental market — and it punishes absentee owners who guess. Whether you're buying your first Detroit rental, running a buy-and-hold or Section 8 portfolio, flipping houses, or already own property here, you get a trusted local expert and operator at the property — on your schedule, reporting back to you, and looking after your investment like it's their own.
Scheduled visits with photos, video, and a plain-language written summary after every trip to the property. No guessing, no relying on secondhand updates — you see what we see.
Lock changes, lockbox setup, meeting contractors, vendors, appraisers, or utility crews on site, plus progress checks and follow-through — end-to-end local management, so a job never stalls because nobody in Detroit has the keys.
Progress checks during renovations and punch-list verification at the end, documented with photos and video, so you can confirm work is done before money goes out.
One call covers the whole job: full home renovations, gut rehabs, and fast rental turnovers between tenants — scoped, priced, coordinated, and documented by your local team, with the work performed by independent subcontracted construction companies we coordinate on site. Tell us about the property and the work you have in mind, and we'll put a real quote together.
Every service is a real person at your Detroit property, in person — built for real estate investors: the documentation, local market knowledge, and follow-through you need to buy right, renovate smart, and hold rentals that cash flow. And every price below is Detroit launch pricing — investor-grade work for a fraction of what the same work costs elsewhere. New to investing in Detroit? Start with the free consultation at the top of the menu. Ordering is easy: select one or more services, send a request with your preferred day and time, and we confirm by text. Buy individually, or climb the package ladder below and get even more for your money. Need a property protected instead? See board-ups, winterizing, and smoke detector installation under Property Protection & Safety — and for full home renovations and rental turnovers, use Get a Quote under Rehab Planning.
Detroit launch pricing — investor-grade work, priced to win your business. These are introductory rates while Boots on the Ground builds its Detroit client base: premium deliverables at working-investor prices, with no trip fees, no hourly meters, and no surprises. The same work costs far more anywhere else — request now and lock in today's rates.
Sales & listing photos — not professionally edited or staged: Our Sales Photos are sales photos and listing photos, shot on a high-quality, top-of-the-line iPhone and ready to use on the MLS or any real estate website to sell the property. What they are not: professionally edited, retouched, or staged — and they are not shot by a professional photographer. You get genuine listing photos that show the property clearly and honestly, ready to upload and list — just without professional editing or staging.
Our signature ladder is the Investor Due Diligence Package: each step builds on the last, and the full package costs about what a basic home inspection runs — while giving you far more to invest with. Below it, packages bundle repeat visits and full project support into one arrangement instead of paying for every trip separately. And if you're still deciding whether Detroit is the right market for you, start with the free consultation above — we'll help you think it through before you spend a dollar.
One property, one visit, four deliverables that build on each other. Most clients start with the video — and most take the whole ladder once they see what comes back. Every step is a flat package total, not an add-on fee stacked on top.
Compare: a standard Detroit home inspection starts around $349 and hands you a checklist. For $395 you get the walkthrough video, a typed section-by-section scope, an itemized bid workbook, and a measured floor plan with door and window counts — way more information, built for investors.
Risk-free finish: everything after the bid portion of the package is refundable if you hire Boots on the Ground to manage the project.
Not sure which fits? Send a request with the Custom / Other service and tell us about the property — we'll recommend the simplest option.
Detroit keeps making the case for itself — billion-dollar redevelopment, new city programs for small-building investors, and neighborhoods filling in block by block. We track the positive headlines that matter to real estate investors, plus the rate and loan news that changes what a deal pencils at: mortgage rate moves, DSCR loan pricing, and financing shifts. Every story links to the original reporting.
Updated every morning with the latest positive Detroit investing news · Digest current as of October 23, 2026
The average 30-year fixed rate fell to 7.32% for the week ending Oct 22, the first weekly drop since August after seven straight increases — even small dips reopen deals that didn't pencil at higher rates.
Read the story →The largest private redevelopment commitment in the city's modern era: Bedrock's nonprofit-led plan brings housing, small-business space, and 18 acres of public space to a 35-acre downtown riverfront district — the kind of anchor investment that lifts values well beyond downtown.
Read the story →A current breakdown of DSCR financing: clean files (strong credit, solid rent coverage) are pricing in the high-6% to low-7% range, and the loan qualifies on the property's rent — not your W-2 — which is why DSCR stays the go-to tool for Detroit buy-and-hold investors.
Read the story →Detroit sellers outnumber buyers by about 38%, giving buyers real negotiating power — investors with a local team can be picky, negotiate hard, and buy right.
Read the story →The Hive on Russell turned a vacant site into 78 new apartments between Eastern Market and Lafayette Park — more proof that capital keeps flowing into Detroit neighborhoods.
Read the story →The city is seeking developers for 16 parcels in North Corktown (20+ new homes) and offering up to $2.5 million through its Small Buildings Program to close funding gaps on 2–7 unit rehabs and new construction — direct support for exactly the small-deal investors Boots on the Ground serves.
Read the story →Reading the headlines and thinking about a Detroit deal of your own? Book the free consultation and talk it through with a local expert before you buy.
Select your services or a package and send the request form with the property address and your preferred day and time window.
We text you back at the number you provide to confirm availability and lock in the visit. Consultation calls are checked against the calendar before they're confirmed, so your call is never double booked. A request isn't a confirmed appointment until we reply.
We show up in person, do the work or the walkthrough, and document everything — photos, video, measurements, and notes.
Photos, video, and a clear written summary land with you the same day or within 24 hours, depending on the service — wherever you are.
We invest and operate in Detroit ourselves, and we know the neighborhoods block by block — what rents, what sells, what a property is really worth. We also know what to look for at the property: water in a basement, a furnace that's been stripped, a door that isn't latching. You hear about problems early, with photos to prove it.
Every visit produces dated photos and video plus a written summary. That record protects you with contractors, tenants, insurance, and your own books — the paper trail an out-of-state owner can't create from home.
For acquisitions and renovations, we walk the property and build room-by-room scopes of work and itemized bid workbooks — so contractor pricing is compared apples-to-apples, phases are easy to track, and your rehab budget is based on real numbers, not guesses.
Progress visits during the work, phase-by-phase verification, and a punch list at the end — then standing checks while you hold. One local contact managing your Detroit investments from the first walkthrough to final completion and beyond.
Fill this out and text it straight to us — your request summary builds itself as you type. We reply by text to confirm your time. Booking the free consultation? Select it from the menu, pick a date and time window that works for you, and we'll confirm once it's scheduled — every call is checked against the calendar so you're never double booked.
Prefer to talk it through? Call or text (586) 477-5117 and tell us the address and what you need — we'll take it from there.
We're based in Detroit and cover the city and nearby suburbs. Have a property a little further out? Ask — if we can get there, we will. Most of our clients invest from out of state — wherever you are, we can be your Detroit team.