By the intense title of your post I thought you were broken into several times with  copper and ac stolen while you were dodging bullets every night.  

You need to realize that already on the backend.Remember the first consideration is a "Groundskeeper", otherwise your house will get stolen. 

while a big problem with his program is that rehab money was stolen.. but these are the same areas and homes that are  continually recycled.. by failed landlorsdsyou would be money ahead to forget about rentals if all you can afford or want to afford is high crime areas.. 

The drain contractor had his skid steer trailer stolen, then found, notified it was at the police impound, so it took him a while to get his skid steer on site.

If someone in the house is mining Bitcoin for example and leaving the computer on 24 hours a day that will be more expensive. 

But the stolen property was recovered in my rental property when the probation officer and cops did a "random" inspection after the neighbor reported it to the authorities.

A family member just had some expensive camera equipment stolen, and I used clchecker.com to search all the metro areas within 200 miles, and to send me an email if an ad is posted that matches my search criteria identifying the stolen equipment.

Even the metal fence around his church was stolen.

My most recent property rehab has all the existing duct in the walls from the old heating system but the furnace and all the ductwork in the basement was stolen.

Time, quality, drama, fraud, theft, etc.Lastly, I have a client who was doing a flip and after the work was done, the home was broken into, appliances stolen, and vandalized.