Taxes here for investors are murder.

You could rent to a psycho who murders everyone, you could have one bring in a bomb, one could be a terrorist, you could have one have a horrible disease that everyone dies of, one could run into your house with a vehicle, the list of things that could go wrong is endless. 

I had been hearing stories about the Legendary International Real Estate Man of Mystery @Cal C. 

If you have a lot of turnover, you might have guest that ruin them, are stained beyond repair or mysteriously get “lost”.

Your 1st pic, that almost curb-view because it cut's off most of the home, looks like something from cover page of a murder investigation, at a drug-den.

However, this also doesn't prevent shady brokers from producing phantom bids from mystery buyers.  

So the rates at that time will be a complete mystery.

I remember a staple of discussions around the dinner table was the inevitable Baltimore/DC comparison (when DC was the murder capital of the US during Marion Barry's tenure as mayor and Baltimore was pretty far up there in violent crime).

The stats say that have olny been a few minor thefts in the area, no burglaries or murders. 

Because payroll taxes are murder...But I do get to claim SEP-IRA contributions as an expense...My personal assets are protected to an extent...