Pittsburgh is weird with its neighborhoods though; our house was within a couple blocks of some very rough neighborhoods with some very cheap 8-10K properties for sale.

Indianapolis can vary block to block and even street to street.

Your best bet is to go there on an evening and see how the block looks then. in a way you are fortunate because these are the summer months and you can get a good feel of what goes on around that house. if you see a lot of hanging around on porches or a house with a lot of traffic (foot and car), proceed with caution.  

Somehow all of the money being poured into a 6x6 block radius 1.5 miles from central downtown has been somewhat overlooked recently.

We've looked at recent comps, and two houses on the same block with similar layouts and square footage sold at $62/ft. and $63/ft. each within the past couple of weeks. 

Show maps of where the property sits and point out that it's not on such and such block, hence the reason why it's less valuable than if it's on another block, etc. 

After several visits the existing drain was found to be blocked and backing up tripping a float switch.

The landscaping needed work too, I removed scraggly and overgrown bushes/trees, put in two block walls, a patio privacy fence, lots of work on the grass.  

There are definitely differences block to block.Most of the deals are in poor physical shape.  

They do not work well for tenants as they easily block causing you many late night calls.