I just got an accepted offer for a single family house in "East 103rd Street", which seems to be a quiet Street, but undesirable neighborhood.

So I would leave the patio until you are just about done with the house , that way you have a hard surface for staging work and no mud to deal with .

Seems like a lot of the PM's in Ocala have very undesirable rates and are often overpriced.

Finish lower level split (half was single car garage), adding a mud room, laundry room, and new master bath suite.

. $800 for a 3 bedroom sounds very low to me, unless it is in an undesirable area.

There is a reason why virtually all economists view rent control as undesired. 

What is the best way to analyze a neighborhood or area of a city.Other considerations would be flooding, is it located to something undesirable (think garbage dump or jail) or desirable (great restaurants, downtown area), look at how the neighbors maintain their properties and cars, is the area getting nicer over the years.

Selling a property “as is” does not mean the seller can misrepresent the condition of the property or fail to disclose undesirable conditions.

I don't want the yard to turn into a mud pit haha.

If the listing doesn't sell, the seller looks at you as incompetent and perhaps run your name in the mud...even though you explained the price is too high, etc.