Used to be (and in some blocks still is) a run-down, drug infested mess.But there are signs of life, too--REAL art wall murals have replaced the typical gang graffiti; specialty coffee shops open next to bodegas, art galleries opening, and blocks and blocks of beautiful brownstone buildings. 

Be careful of larger infestation.

Treat your real estate like a business, take care of your properties and tenants, and protect your assets, just in case...These tenants just got awarded $1.6 million for a bed bug infestation that was not addressed promptly by the landlord: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/california-bedbug-lawsuit.html?

Get the food out of there fast, or you will also have pest infestation, which will cause you problems with your next door neighbor.

Two months later it turned out that one of the units had a major bed bug infestation. 

We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals.

We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals.

Basement is rat infested.

Like if most people say don't swim in pirahna infested water, the contrarian might say its ok, they're not very big.That said everyone needs to find a way that works for them.

We finally evicted the messy tenant and the roach infestation was so bad we had to replace the carpets.I often doubted the complaints of some sensitive tenants till we treated a unit, my wife went in the next day to clean up the vacant unit a day later, and got pesticide poisoning.