With texture, the repair doesn't have to be perfect -- you just mud over it to match.  

The driveway needs some mud jacking to adjust the pitch, and there’s a downspout right next to the problem area.

It was making the place undesirable in and of itself.I'm someone who tries to look at the long-term picture. 

Or do the gutter screens cause other issues that make them undesirable?

Having a high threshold for pain as well as dealing with undesirable circumstances (two things all the Jackass guys seem to embrace) no doubt comes in handy as a landlord. 

Both these worse case happened to our STR units which we do not self manage:Scenario 1: tenant created a mud pit out of the small yard for girls to wrestle in.  

My mom owns a home in an undesirable area, so I have been attempting to get a HELOC on her home and upgrade her living situation with my first property, then turn her current house into a rental temporarily.

If the apartments are near East Cleveland around the Superior and Mayfield streets then you may want to stay away from those because they are a part of an undesirable area and you may experience high turnover rate.Hope this helps!

Other than that theyll fail when they get too much mud/rust in them from never being serviced inside the cast iron sections.

It’s a mud pit with toys everywhere.