Corporations are buying up real estate and renting it out now neighborhoods are fighting back. katie beck has more on what s being called the investor invasion. reporter: carrie miller says her community in charlotte, north carolina looks different than a year ago. you put in the effort and people see you putting in the effort, they will want to put in the effort reporter: lawns are better kept, neighbors are looking out for each other she says a frightening shooting outside a rental home last february sparked change it took that for folks to really open their eyes reporter: she blames the problem on what she calls the investor invasion. a growing trend of families buying up single families and converting them into rental properties. people come in and buy a property and you never see them again reporter: across town in the potter s glenn subdivision, vincent evans says investor buying was followed by rental properties with poor upkeep, a lack of tep