If the area is gentrifying, get involved on the community level too to keep the area on the rise.We partner with law enforcement and took the classes that the city police and county sheriff offered on reducing crime and improving the safety of neighborhoods.

He lost a great tenant who was there for over 2 years because he wanted $25 more a month, and turned out she was on a fixed income (which he knew), so she moved, house sat vacant, next tenant required eviction (judgment, never recovered), next ones had the police there constantly.

By the way, I have contacted the state Fraud division, and county police on several of the parties involved - just to steam it up a bit.

(You'll need copies of the police report showing the address and the activity. 

In the case of a fire, the fire department would have a need to know.In the case of a police raid, the police department would have a need to know.In the case of neighbors, I don't see they would have a need to know unless there was imminent danger to them.In our jurisdiction, it is against the law to discharge a firearm within city limits, except under specific circumstances.

But still, I don't know of any local SAFE act police department, so who's doing the counting?

I sat next door to a landlord in court who was being forced to evict his tenant by the police - he was facing heavy fines if he did not evict his "drug dealing " tenants.

If a house on the market currently has squatters in it, can that be dealt with simply by getting police involved to get them out after the property is purchased?

I do have the police reports, although I don't know if that would help, and not sure I want to, or even should, share that info.

By complaints I ment neighbors or police calling to complain about them not that there was a leak under the sink.So far we have done this with wonderful success.We us US bank and they have a credit union and it was no problem to set up.For those freaking out about the reduction of cash flow please no hate mail.