It was an excellent learning experience.The house was in pretty rough shape all around, but the smell from decades of smoke and dog urine were horrible.  

What sites/methods would you guys use or do you think are best to just analyze an area and see if it is has a horrible crime rate and or gang war zone / gangland ?

The bathrooms were in horrible, unusable condition in the first place (which I suspect is often the case in many flips?) 

There is really very little expense on my end, so although some may say 0.8% is horrible, I will challenge them to consider how much effort they put into 2% properties.

And no idea how much animal life has been lost, but it's got to be horrible. 

BTW...driving 100 miles to supervise a paint job sounds like a horrible use of your time and talent....get a new contractor on your team and you will feel a million times better, trust me.Good luck!

I get a lot of free time because of my work (it's not a horrible job, mind you).  

Something unfortunate is that a the previous owner poured new concrete for the foundation but it was done horribly.

My local market is horrible for rentals returns.

Of course, this is after your due diligence, but if you buy it under a corp and discover something horrible, you can just walk away and lose whatever you put in, without being responsible for cleaning up the property or other additional costs.