Construction joke what the difference between a prostitute  and a contractor after getting  F%&k the second time the prostitute will charge you the same price the contractor will charge you more.Good luck Stacey

However, often these areas are marked by lots of graffiti, open gang/drug/prostitution activity, dilapidated houses and/or other types of pervasive blight, etc.

I often hear people say that they can make them work with good property management, but so far I haven't found the property manager that can convince good, paying tenants to live in an area with rapes, robberies, assaults, shootings, drug dealing and prostitution going on around them.

Plus, the only people I have ever run into who offer to pre pay a year are in the drug or prostitution trade. 

The landlords I have come in contact with here in Dallas 70% will lie about ownership but when I confront them; they start to sweat like a prostitute in church, and then they come clean.Joe Gore

They also dealt with prostitutes and crack houses for a number of years.I get a bit of extra satisfaction on bringing old homes back to their former glory, not to mention making money while increasing the value of my home by continuing to revitalize the neighborhood.

Blind pigs were after-hours clubs that featured gambling and prostitution.

Yes, when I bought it, it was literally inhabitated with drug dealers and prostitutes so there was a lot of $$$ spent on legal fees to evict.Funny you mention shootings because when I bought it, one of the hallway windows did in fact have a bullet hole.  

Crappy street people constantly walking around, drug dealers, prostitutes, and crappy neighbors who stopped working with me trying to clean it up.

This is one block from the road where you routinely see prostitutes walking up and down.