.- All that being said, you can always negotiate, just be realistic.6) Call the city about the trash.

Agree with Joe, but I'll add that I had a neighbor do this (I am in Union City) and it was an expensive process. 

@Fahima Hilal an architect usually only outlines mechanicals, plumbing & electrical on their blueprints.Your contracts should be creating appropriate drawings showing where their stuff would go and submit to city with their permit application.

For instance my 90 lot subdivision at one point I had 90 legal descriptions and parcels on one master deed.. as I sold them off we just deeded them out separately.. its super common especially in older platted cities were lots might have been small like 25 X 100 and someone bought 3 of them and then built one home on all three.. some places they force merge them others you can go back and recreate the Old lots of record.. there is millions upon millions made by those that know how to find shadow plats and bring to life underlying parcels.

We also dealt with this in the City of Chicago.

Most "off-market deals" I see in Milwaukee are in the poorest part of the city.

Great post, thanks for sharing, Kevin--I would also add that the Lower South End area into Madison Park is also a great area to relocated to if you want to be in close proximity to Uptown without being in the hustle & bustle of the city! 

Along any major road heading out of the city.

@Puneet Sharma it is VERY risky investing in the City of Detroit via zip code!

Talk to a lawyer.If you get in trouble with your city you won't be able to rent it out now or later.