For your safety and that of your other tenant, if you feel personally threatened in any manner, seek professional help, which may include law enforcement.We're rooting for you!

I would get the right people to green light the safety of removing it, and not just trust my own judgment. 

So I'm about ready to begin looking for a first investment property but I need to know how much I should have up front to get the deal done and maybe have a starter safety net for any up front expenses.

If your most important benefit is safety, then stay where you are.

So it will need flood/hazards/landscapingThe comps around the area are in the high 180s. 

So it will need flood/hazards/landscapingThe comps around the area are in the high 180s.

Don't forget insurance, title and hazard.   

There's more safety in structure, don't be lazy about it.

Some safety.)There is zero % chance I would sell to buy another property unless you are leaving the area or doing an exchange in to something so big you need $200k instead of $160k.

I recently purchased an out of state property through an online auction (foreclosure) and was informed that there was a vacate sign as well as a hazard sign on the property.