I left that part out Rich; about the undesirable areas.

An odor removal attempt that is even 80% effective will still leave you with an undesirable smell, one that you don’t want to sleep on or wear.Your local damage restoration professionals should offer smoke odor removal as one of their many services.

Buying properties in Worthless/undesireable/unsafe neighborhoods.6.

Structure New Agreements to honor existing agreements, Establish New " Floors" where no agreement exists,develope your strategy for legal removal of undesirables 3.

It would at worst be a waste of time, but I doubt you'd turn them off with truthful but peripheral info.

Weight the option you want by making the other two un-desirable based on their scenario.

A restriction may still be imposed (by HUD) within a redevelopment area (or sub-area) in order to prevent undesirable concentrations of units under a single (or group) ownership.

A possible first eviction coming up for me, had served a three day notice myself yesterday for the 10 days late rent with a fictional story for it and some undesirable living conditions.

The flat fee approach is definitely a good option for getting exposure to the MLS without having to pay for unneeded or undesired services.

I do appreciate your sharing your lessons from the ordeal so at least something positive and useful, no matter how small or peripheral, was able to come from it.