Quote from @Rodney Lorenzo:
It wasn't overnight. According to the PM, the city was making efforts to clean up the streets around my neighborhood. When they got to my street, they stopped. Funds may have run out. Police force reduced. I don't know. Hartford has pockets of bad areas. My street had a crack house across the street and a brothel a few doors down. You cross the avenue onto the other block and it turns nice. This wasn't anything I could control
Your analysis is wrong. Neighborhoods don’t decline because improvement money runs out. They don’t improve because improvement money runs out, and simply remain as they were.
Now look at what you wrote. There was a crack house across the street. C NEIGHBORHOODS DO NOT HAVE CRACK HOUSES!!! Then you say there’s a brothel a few doors down. Most C neighborhoods don’t have brothels, and if they do, they are discrete and the girls are pretty.
Bottom line: You bought into an F neighborhood, not a C neighborhood. It remains an F. Whoever sold to you unloaded a bag of s**t on you. I have to question your mental acuity first, though. How could you think that a neighborhood wits crack house was class C?