It was positive for city living but from a pretty run down property that I could see people through the walls from the curb for $25K at 11AM (fully rented) was located 6 blocks from a nice $300K duplex can't be helpful. 

Attend the city meetings and get them to do the following:Have the city bury all of the overhead wiring (to do it's part to revitalize the area).Have the city jack hammer all of the quilt work patches and end of service life concrete walks and replace them with new to code modern concrete walks, as well as driveway aprons (to do it's part to revitalize the area).Have the city put in modern curb and gutter, and resurface all of the roads in the neighborhood in new dark black asphalt with nice new white painted lines. 

The reasoning I require it is because we allow pets, and if the tenants animal causes someone else harm the property owner could be on the hook, the renters insurance helps curb this, we have the tenant name the breed, name,  sex, weight, of the animal (s) on the policy  

Your 1st pic, that almost curb-view because it cut's off most of the home, looks like something from cover page of a murder investigation, at a drug-den.

You want some low maintenance bushes and trees for curb appeal.

Put another way....To get what they want, tenants will kick Honesty, Integrity and The Golden Rule to the curb, so to speak. 

Generally, California has historically high rents, prop 13 to curb wild taxes, and a front runner for annual appreciation (though it fluctuates more than other states).

Got a long list of things I am excited to tackle to increase some equity and overall curb-appeal.

If not a big job, I will move out to the driveway/curb of the house myself.

Curb appeal What was the outcome?