If done right this helps people who do not currently ave the ability to buy to own a home... and when I fix up an EYE SORE home I help the neighbors and provide a good rental or owner financed home for another family.When I work with the "infill" development , we take unusable homes tear them down and rebuild brand new duplexes to rent to affordable housing needs (sec * and FEMA) and sell the Duplexes to investors that are like minded and want to better a neighborhood while they invest...I think I can some up Investing in real estate in " Instead of just making Money..

oh, I also found out the HO has been arrested a few times. disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, drunk driving.

Some of them have had a lot of misdemeanors (usually disorderly conduct) when they were younger.

(not counting the renovation) I think it's tough to find a deal like this in Chicago on the North Side, where you can sleep peacefully at night and not worry about someone breaking in, or a drunk and disorderly, including being located in a  highly rated school district...I understand appreciation, and gambling on neighborhood gentrification isn't a primary concern of mine, this is a risk-free, safe return play.

Good GC is a sore topic in Tally.

Exhausted by a decade of rising disorder and property crime—now two-and-a-half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s.After dictating homelessness policy for a generation, the activist class is losing the narrative.Here is the entire story by Michael Snyder: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-17/san-fran..."

Now whenever someone says "man my back is sore" her immediate response is "oh it's probably whateveritis!"

Helps it blend in a little better so it's not as bad of an eye sore. 

Your "1 out of 100" comment is spot on.The danger is when people become encouraged to engage in investments they are sorely under-prepared for.

Yes, @Bob Langworthy I did a lot more research & found that the property is sorely overpriced.