The power company is right too, it's fortunate a fire has not broken out. 

Day night and all in between looking for ANYTHING that could be a red flag (gangbangers, graffiti, broken windows etc) When I see kids riding bikes, fruit vendors on the corner, you know its not super terrible. 

I would not be shocked (lol no pun intended) if the ground is broken along the way somewhere.

Since nothing was broken, Warranty denied, but charged $75 service fee. 

I’ll ask my new broken when we meet.  

My concern was higher turnover due to deployment also being a reason a lease could be broken.

Some of those repairs and such may be able to be broken out under shorter depreciable lives- but I'd recommend using a tax professional for that. 

Trying to sell my house in a high-end neighborhood, but my neighbor has a broken down 5 plex next-door and it sticks out like a sore thumb in the neighborhood.

Here's what we do for your reference:Employer & Income Verification via paystubs (or tax returns) and phone call.Landlord verification via callCredit and background checkPictures of all petsCopy of drivers licenseNo evictions or broken leaseThat usually weens out the bad apples. 

:PYeah it's pretty safe to say that residential appraising is fundamentally broken.